Category: Nursing Facility Abuse

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Nursing Home Residents at Risk Neglect and Lack of Supervision Pressure Wounds/Bedsores Can Be Deadly Neglect and abandonment of nursing home residents can be fatal. Pressure wounds/bedsores and infections can kill. Understaffing and lack of training and supervision are real problems within care facilities and the pandemic has […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Sexual Assault, Rape, And Other Intentional Abuse Dementia Patients Especially at Risk Tragically, incidents of sexual assault and rape of nursing home residents are more and more in the news. The Alameda County elder abuse attorneys at Evans Law Firm, Inc. believe that nursing homes, owners, administrators and […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER All Nursing Home Residents At Risk Neglect Can Be As Fatal As Intentional Abuse Bedridden Patients Particularly at Risk Neglect of the elderly can be as harmful as intentional abuse. Nursing home residents requiring daily care are especially at risk. Understaffing increases the chances of neglect as fewer […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Wandering: A Real Danger With Alzheimer’s Sufferers Deaths From Wandering/Elopement Caregiver And Nursing Home Negligence Wandering (also known as elopement) is a common behavior for older persons suffering from dementia. The result can be fatal. Dementia sufferers are often under the care of in-home caregivers or facilities charged […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Wandering: A Real Danger With Alzheimer’s Sufferers Deaths From Wandering/Elopement Wandering (also known as elopement) is a common behavior for older persons suffering from dementia, especially those with Alzheimer’s disease. Many dementia patients reside in nursing homes and other care facilities where they need monitoring and supervision. When […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Fatal Caregiver Abuse Neglect of Bedridden Senior Results in Death Neglect is a form of elder abuse that can kill a bedridden senior quickly. In a recently reported case with which we were not involved, a bedridden senior died after allegedly being neglected by a caregiver for a […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Coronavirus Can Be Deadly For Seniors Seniors In Care Facilities Are Especially At Risk What Loved Ones Can Do The coronavirus (COVID-19) poses an especially deadly threat to nursing home and assisted care facility residents. COVID-19 outbreaks throughout Europe and the United States have swept through care facilities […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Residents at Risk of Sexual Assault, Other Intentional Abuse, and Neglect Cases of Sexual Assaults and Rape Increase Dementia Patients Especially at Risk Nursing home residents are at risk of harm from negligent abuse and neglect, and intentional abuse such as rape, sexual assault, battery, and intentional overmedication. […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Seniors at Risk of Financial and Physical Elder Abuse Looking for Signs of Abuse Act to Stop It Elder abuse of various kinds can strike any senior, especially isolated ones or seniors confined to nursing homes or other care facilities. Dementia patients are at particular risk of financial […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Financial Elder Abuse Strikes Seniors Anywhere Care Facility Residents Vulnerable To Exploitation Preventing Abuse The risks of financial elder abuse by in-home caregivers is high. But seniors who live in assisted care facilities or nursing homes are vulnerable to financial elder abuse too. Staff members at these facilities […]