Category: Nursing Facility Abuse

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Neglect of Older Persons Can Be Elder Abuse Seniors Can Be Neglected In Nursing Homes Or By In-Home Caregivers Resulting Bed Sores/Pressure Wounds And Infections Can Be Fatal Neglect of the elderly can be a very dangerous, potentially fatal, form of elder abuse. California expressly includes neglect as […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Researchers Say About 75% of Homes are Understaffed Understaffing May Lead To Neglect or Abandonment Researchers from Harvard and Vanderbilt medical schools recently released a study estimating that over 70% of nursing homes self-reported that they had more staff members than their payroll records reflected. In particular, researchers […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER New California Law Adds Remedy For Abandoned Older Persons Abandonments During 2017 Wildfires Behind New Measure Sadly, at least 20 frail elderly residents of care facilities were abandoned during the North Bay fires in the Fall of 2017. In response, a new California law adds “abandonment” to the […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Fatal Caregiver Abuse Decedent Lived in Residential Care Facility Caregiver abuse of the elderly and other dependent adults can be deadly. A criminal prosecution is proceeding right now in Southern California[1] against a caregiver charged with the alleged torture and murder of an 87-year-old man living in a […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Dementia Patients Particularly Vulnerable Overuse of Anti-Psychotic Drugs Incomplete Information and “Informed Consent” Thousands of dementia patients in nursing homes are being overmedicated with psychotropic drugs every day throughout the United States. One recent study found that nursing homes administer unnecessary antipsychotic drugs to 179,000 patients every week. […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Horrific Stories of Abuse, Assault and Rape of Nursing Home Residents Stories of rape and sexual assault of nursing home residents are gruesome and nightmarish. But the reality is that nursing home residents are particularly vulnerable to rape and sexual assault from nursing home staff and from intruders. […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Elopement (Wandering Off) A Serious Risk With Elderly Dementia Patients Holding Nursing Homes Accountable Elopement, also known as wandering, is a real risk with older persons suffering from any form of dementia. Fortunately, many wandering seniors are found right outside their home or care facility and taken back […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Stronger Regulations for Assisted Living Facilities and Nursing Homes A recent report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) found that improved federal oversight of the health and welfare of residents is needed in both nursing homes and assisted living facilities. The Alameda County elder abuse attorneys at Evans […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Catching Nursing Home Abuse on Cameras Using Surveillance Cameras to Monitor Care Families of loved ones abused or neglected in nursing homes are increasingly turning on in-room cameras to monitor care. More than 1.3 million Americans live in nursing homes. Their loved ones watch stories of neglect, abuse, […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Overmedication A Real Danger For All Seniors Nursing Home Residents and Anti-Psychotic Drugs Overmedication of nursing home residents has become a terrible problem in this country. Many of the drugs are unnecessary. One recent study concluded that nursing homes administer unnecessary antipsychotic drugs to 179,000 patients every week. […]