Physical and elderly abuse in nursing homes occurs when physical force is used to cause harm and injury to an elderly patient. Physical elder abuse typically has the most obvious warning signs. Unfortunately, due to cognitive issues or other disabilities, many elders are unable to properly report abuse. Abuse of the elderly frequently goes unreported […]
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How To Prove Nursing Home Abuse
Nursing home abuse and neglect has injured and killed many elderly patients and has left several families in devastation and bereavement. If you believe your family member has been the victim of neglect or abuse in a nursing home, assisted living center, or other residential or long-term care setting, please contact an attorney at Hornsby, […]
How To Report Abuse Of The Elderly
Nursing homes are profit-driven businesses and during tough economic times good business practice and quality control can suffer in favor of short-sighted profits, quotas, and corner cutting. Businesses in trouble do not generally announce this, rather, they simply cover their tracks as best as they can. Cutbacks in hours and wages have a great impact […]
Who Else Wants to Record Nursing Home Abuse?
Nursing home abuse can be physical abuse, emotional abuse, sexual abuse, exploitation, neglect, or abandonment . Nursing home abuse can take on many different forms, including physical abuse, mental abuse, sexual abuse, financial abuse or neglect. Neglect is another serious form of nursing home abuse. Nursing home abuse is an unacceptable societal ill occurring regularly […]
How To Use A Secret Hidden Camera To Prove Nursing Home Abuse
Nursing home abuse is not always easy to identify, but usually signs will manifest that will indicate that physical, mental or verbal abuse has been occurring. Nursing home abuse is defined as the neglect, mistreatment, or harming of a resident in a medical care facility. Nursing home abuse can occur in a variety of forms. […]
How Total Covert Hidden Camera Helps Catch Nursing Home Abuse
There have been numerous reports over the years of nursing home abuses, and there have been Congressional investigations into this abuse. Nursing homes are often understaffed, and sometimes staffed with unqualified or under-qualified caregivers. True but sad there is a lot of abuse in our nursing homes and I for one would never send my […]
What Do Baby Boomer, Hidden Camera & Nursing Home Abuse Have In Common?
In case you have been living in a cave, the reality is that the baby boomer generation is surging toward retirement age and the fact that there is a growing need to find a bigger work force to tend to the millions of boomers who will in the not too distant future need ongoing care […]
Two Surefire Ways To Catch Nursing Home Abuse With Hidden Cameras
Nursing home abuse is rampant in today’s society. Elderly patients and the mentally ill do not have a chance in most all of our world wide nursing homes. Many facilities fail to provide the services necessary for patients to avoid physical harm, mental anguish or mental illness. Official investigate nearly 4,500 nursing home abuse cases each year […]
How To Use A Hidden Camera To Catch Nursing Home Elder Abuse
They are about the last places anyone wants to be, but about 1.6 million people now live in nursing homes in the United States. Thirty years from now, it’s expected to be 5 million. Many patients are at risk because one out of four nursing homes every year is cited for causing death or serious […]