Category: Nursing Home Abuse

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

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 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 Dementia Patients at Risk of Intentional Abuse Gruesome Exploitation by Caregivers Nursing home abuse includes negligent abuse and neglect, and intentional abuse such as sexual assault and rape or intentional overmedication of residents or other abuse. In one recently reported case,[1] several nursing home aides were arrested for […]

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 Residents at Risk of Negligence, Neglect and Intentional Abuse Cases of Sexual Assaults and Rape Increase Nursing home abuse includes negligent abuse and neglect, and intentional abuse such as sexual assault and rape or intentional overmedication of residents. Incidents of sexual assault and rape are particularly horrific but […]

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. […]