Nursing Home Abuse

Older adults typically wind up living in a nursing home when their family members can no longer safely meet their needs. Unfortunately, not all nursing homes provide an adequate standard of care to their residents. For some people living in nursing homes, their time in that facility results in physical or emotional injury due to …

“It’s for the best; you’ll be safe here, Mom, look at how many people there are to look after you.” Placing one of your parents in an Ohio nursing home can be a tough decision. When you take that decision, you do so with the best interests of your parent in mind, trusting that a …

When you entrust your parents to an Ohio nursing home, there is an expectation that they are going to be safe. While you hope they will also be happy there and find friends, the basic is that they are safe and well cared for. This is the reason you send them to a nursing home, …

Family concerns about nursing home abuse often focus primarily on risks associated with physical, emotional or sexual abuse. People don’t worry as much about financial abuse, often because they don’t realize how serious or common this kind of abuse actually is. People caring for your loved one in a nursing home facility have a position …

There are instances in which nursing homes might need to limit or eliminate visitors to the facility to help increase the safety of the residents. While it is usually easy to understand the underlying reason for the isolation, family members do have a serious complication to think about in these cases – nursing home abuse …

Nursing homes in this country have been at the center of abuse and neglect scandals for many years. Sometimes, nursing home abuse or neglect occurs because of administrative problems such as staff shortages. Other times, there is no way to explain how or why these issues happen. What is clear is that it remains a …

Identifying Nursing Home Neglect Having a vulnerable loved one injured or taken advantage of by the very people who are supposed to care for them is awful. Assessing the situation and deciding what to do can be nerve-wracking. Getting answers is an important first step toward “doing something about it” and getting help. A potential …

You carefully chose an Ohio nursing facility because you could not be with your loved one every hour of the day. Perhaps you had some scary moments that brought you to the realization that your loved one’s Alzheimer’s or another form of dementia was beyond your ability to care for. If you researched and found …