Nursing Home Neglect Lawyers

Reports show that the number of people that must rely on a nursing home facility for their care is on the rise. Unfortunately, so are the numbers of abuse cases that are reported at these facilities against the residents. The government has put various nursing home laws in place that are designed to monitor one hundred fifty different standards of care that each nursing home must meet in order to be within its guidelines. These standards of care are meant to insure that each resident gets the services and care necessary to provide them with a good quality of life. Even with consistent reporting and investigating many of these facilities fail to maintain a regular practice that provides for these standards. According to the National Center for Elderly Abuse over eighty eight percent of all nursing home facilities fail in the area of direct care that is given to the residents with thirty percent of these cases being gross acts of negligence or deliberate abuse within the facility.

Most Common Forms of Nursing Home Abuse

The most common forms of nursing home abuse that is reported involve the neglect of the resident’s physical and emotional care. Many residents are reportedly treated for bedsores, pressure sores, dehydration, malnutrition and kidney or urinary tract infections. These health conditions and injuries that result are most often the result of neglect on the part of the caregivers assigned to the resident.

In a study that was reported by USA Today News, more than half of all nursing home residents suffer from some type of untreated or uncontrolled pain. Another study conducted by the National Center for Elderly Abuse reported that from 1999 until 2006 approximately thirty percent of all abuse cases that occurred within nursing home facilities resulted in the death of the patient due to dehydration, malnutrition and bedsores that were infected.

While there is more education available for family members and regulations that call for more investigation and inspections within the nursing homes, there is still a great deal of abuse that occurs. For situations in which the abuse is caught early, the victim still suffers from some degree of medical trauma whether this is physical or emotional. The families of the victims often times are reportedly stricken with guilt and other emotional trauma conditions as well.

Rights of a Nursing Home Abuse Victim and their Family

When a nursing home resident is victimized by abuse that is inflicted by the actions of a facility caregiver, there are certain rights that the victim and their family have. The National Center of Elderly Abuse has information that can be beneficial to the nursing home abuse victim and their family when it comes to determining the course that should be taken.

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