Family members are important for reporting abuse. It isn’t just noticing in their own loved ones, but also in other residents at the nursing home. Currently, many nursing homes do not allow visitors since the elderly are the most at risk of catching COVID-19....
Unfortunately, disasters impact seniors the most. This also includes senior abuse during a pandemic. The abuse is not just physical but financial as well. Thus far, the elderly have the highest mortality rates during the current pandemic. About Nursing Home Abuse Each...
Research by the National Center on Elder Abuse found that 44% of nursing home residents are abused, and 95% said they were a victim of, or witnessed neglect. Elder abuse, also known as nursing home abuse, is often reported late — or not at all — making it hard to know...
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released coronavirus-related facility surveys and discovered that 36% of these facilities do not follow proper hand-washing protocols. These inconsistencies put residents and other staff in danger. Coronavirus...
Across the country, thousands of elderly patients are succumbing to coronavirus. Nursing home administrators need to take reasonable measures to keep residents safe. Abuse covers not just physical or sexual abuse but also negligence. This includes putting residents in...
A wife of an Alzheimer’s Disease patient witnessed a nurse abusing her husband. The nursing home did nothing to stop it. The unnerving discovery is the nurse who abused her spouse had been a certified nursing assistant for almost 30 years. About Nursing Home...
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