Nursing Home Abuse Can Be Easy to Overlook
If you are like most people with family members in a nursing home, you may not worry about nursing home abuse. You want to believe they are being treated well and receiving the best care possible. This makes it easier to ignore or downplay certain signs. The bruises in different stages of healing on your […]
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Protecting Your Loved One’s Rights after Nursing Home Abuse
Nursing home abuse and neglect is something that should never happen. Although nursing home staff is commonly overworked, understaffed, and undertrained, there is no excuse for this type of treatment or lack of care. Yet, it still happens every day in nursing homes across America. If you recently learned that your loved one is or […]
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What is the Difference Between Nursing Home Abuse and Neglect?
According to the National Council on Aging, approximately five million Americans become victims of elder abuse annually. What is even more concerning is that it is likely underreported as it is estimated that only 1 out of every 23 cases of abuse is actually reported. Much of this abuse takes place in nursing homes, but […]
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How to Choose the Right Long-Term Care Facility for Your Loved One
One of the most difficult decisions you may have to make regarding your elderly loved ones is to place them in a nursing home. Once this decision has been made, you are then tasked with choosing the right long-term care facility for them. Even if you are not pressured by time, this decision is often […]
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