It is never an easy decision to put your loved on in a nursing home. Many families walk through the halls of a nursing home and feel tremendous guilt for admitting that they are unable to care for their loved one properly. When families tour nursing homes they often feel like they are cold and impersonal and with such a high cost of admitting your loved on in a care facility it’s no wonder why there is so much hesitation.
Continue Reading...For most elderly, the idea to leave home is scary and undesirable. Living on your own represents independence and sometimes the last remaining piece of their life that they want to hold on to. Unfortunately for most aging Americans, living at home becomes increasingly difficult because they are unable to care for themselves health wise. Even if the elderly were able to live with loved ones, they often find it difficult to feel at home again.
Continue Reading...For many elderly patients who reside in nursing homes, they often rely on blood work to maintain their sugar levels. This is often the responsibility of the nurses in a nursing home, and when you trust your loved one in the care of a nursing home, you trust that these levels are being monitored. In one nursing home, two nurses were skipping these tests and fabricating the numbers of the insulin levels of the patients.
Continue Reading...Medications are expensive and crucial to your loved one’s health and well-being. They represent a piece of their care that they need to live and maintain their quality of life. When those medications are stolen from them, not only is it a financial strain, but it is compromising their health.
Continue Reading...In Philadelphia, construction has begun on the development of one of the country’s only affordable nursing homes aimed for gay elderly. After many delayed problems with tax credits the long-awaited project has now begun. The $19 million project will have 56 units and is being built near an area that has a predominant gay community.
Continue Reading...Natural disasters can occur anywhere, 1.2 million nursing home residents reside in disaster prone states. In Arizona, there have been previous issues with wildfires, floods and hurricanes. Most families assume that medical care facilities have a plan for those instances, and that their loved ones are safe should they ever encounter a natural disaster in a nursing home.
Continue Reading...In Phoenix, AZ, a new bill has been sent through legislation that would ultimately limit the awards given for attorney fees in elder abuse cases. The bill titled House Bill 2560 would remove the opportunity for attorney fees to be included in any awards for civil cases of elder abuse or abuse of a vulnerable adult.
There are multiple ways to view the potential results if this bill were to be enacted into law. On one hand, it would prevent unnecessary cases from being brought to court. However, it could also prevent elderly and vulnerable individuals in serious need of legal assistance from getting the help they require and deserve. Attorneys may have to be more selective regarding the cases they take on because certain cases may prove to be large expenses that the clients may not be able to cover. As a result, many people who are in desperate need of legal assistance may not be able to find it. This could put a tremendous burden on those victims who suffer serious physical, emotional, or financial abuse from others.
Others may view this potential law as a means of preventing law firms and courts from making an example out of certain elder care or assisted living centers. In some elder abuse and vulnerable adult cases, the facilities where the victims are being abused are charged inordinate amounts of money in connection with the suit for compensation for the victims. However, in many of those cases, a significant portion goes toward attorney fees. If this potential law can prevent this from occurring and allow a larger portion of the money to go to the victims who rightfully deserve compensation, this law could turn out to be a good thing.
A 50-year-old California man has been arrested and charged with four counts of sexual assault and counts of kidnapping and elder abuse. The 50-year-old man was a custodian at an apartment complex and he had been accused of raping a 65-year-old woman living at the complex.
Continue Reading...A woman in Virginia has made it her mission to prevent elder abuse and ensure law enforcement can be aware of the differences between elder abuse and neglect and self-neglect; ensuring that they can prevent it and help those in serious need. This comes after the woman helped get assistance for her grandparents who were being severely neglected by her uncle. The woman’s grandparents were discovered by police in their own waste and severely malnourished.
Continue Reading...In Napa Valley, two people originally indicted on charges of murder and elder abuse connected to the 2010 death of a 92-year-old woman have now been released from jail after pleading guilty to lesser charges. The two were originally indicted on charges of murder and elder abuse and spent 18 months in jail in connection with those charges.
Continue Reading...In Jefferson City, Missouri the Senate has endorsed a bill that would make it a crime to use their position of authority either by way of guardianship, power of attorney or some other management role to use that authority to take advantage of the elderly. If a person is caught stealing money or otherwise using their position of authority as a way to take advantage of an elderly individual and taking money intended for nursing home expenses, that perpetrator will be ordered to pay back any financial damages to the nursing home to which the money was intended to begin with. The bill has been approved in the first steps in the process of procedure in the Senate. There is no other information on when the bill will be making its way through the Senate in the future.
Continue Reading...An ex-nursing home administrator in New York has agreed to pay nearly $900,000 in a settlement stemming from an embezzlement case. For years, Ruby Weston, who operated two nonprofit Brooklyn nursing homes, steered money, mostly from taxpayers, intended for patient care to herself and her family.
Continue Reading...A bill unanimously passed by the Illinois legislature has angered nursing home abuse advocates and seems poised to undo many of the positive reforms created by the state's landmark 2010 nursing home abuse law. The bill would make it more difficult for the state to cite and fine nursing homes after a resident has been injured or killed.
Continue Reading...Many elderly individuals depend on a caretaker to help check on them and do daily tasks. Elderly who have caretakers do not have a someone who can help them on a daily basis and they rely on the consistency of these programs working. In some cases these programs for caretakers fail, compromising the health of your loved one. An 85-year old woman who was recently hospitalized because she had fallen in her home was supposed to be checked on by a caretaker three times a day.
Continue Reading...There are many locations that can cause a personal injury to an elderly individual. Elderly men and women are more prone to falling and accidents, which makes safety a primary concern for most business owners. One elderly woman who fell on an escalator in a railroad station was killed after her clothes entangled within the escalator as she suffered from asphyxiated.
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