Case Types -Nursing Home Care Giver Institution Abuse

Nursing Home / Elder Abuse

When you take an elderly relative to a nursing home or to the hospital, you are putting your faith in the medical profession and healthcare industry. It is a given in this country that we treat our elders deservingly. The health and elder care professions have set a high standard of quality. But sometimes these standards of quality are not met. When these standards of quality are not met, a personal injury lawyer can assist you in filing claims against those responsible for violating your trust.

The United States General Accounting Office claims that more than 43% of all Americans over the age of 65 will reside in a nursing home sometime in their lives. This being the case, there is no reason to abide nursing home abuse.

A Personal Injury Lawyer can help you with any element involving Nursing Home Abuse.

Elder abuse, according to the Welfare & Institutions Code, Section 15610.07, is any "physical abuse, neglect, financial abuse, abandonment, isolation, abduction or other treatment with resulting in physical harm or pain or mental suffering, or the deprivation by a care custodian of goods or services that are necessary to avoid physical harm or mental suffering."

There are many ways physical elder abuse can present itself, such as:

• Bed Sores
• Malnutrition
• Dehydration
• Bruises
• Broken Bones
• Poor Hygiene

Financial abuse may present itself by substantial losses of money is stored accounts. Neglect, isolation, and abduction are difficult to observe, but you can take preventative measures to assure that they do not happen to anyone.

1. If an elderly loved one is put in a nursing home, make frequent trips to see how they are doing.
2. Ask them if they are being treated fairly and equally.
3. Check them for signs of physical abuse.

If anyone you know has been a victim of elder abuse or any kind of personal injury, please contact us. We are here to help you.