NURSING HOME ABUSE/NEGLECT
Nursing Home Abuse and Neglect
For nearly 25 years, Jeff Diamant has made it a point of pursuing nursing homes, skilled nursing facilities and assisted living facilities for the unsettling failures in caring for our elders. The abuse and neglect of our elders occurs all too often in nursing homes, assisted living facilities and other long term care institutions in America, which is the very place they are supposed to be properly cared for. As his personal mission, Mr. Diamant has and will always, make prosecuting these homes his personal crusade.
Indications of abuse or neglect may include pressure ulcers (bed sores), falls, broken bones, malnutrition, dehydration, bruising, unexplained injuries, and infections. Many problems in the long term care arena result from short-staffing and the willingness of nursing home executives to put profits over people and revenue over residents. Frequently, facilities are deliberately understaffed in order to save money and maximize profits. Signs of short-staffing include the failure to answer call lights in a timely fashion, harried staffers who complain of too much to do, residents languishing in urine and feces for extended periods of time, dirty linens, and the noxious smell of urine or feces in the facility.
When facilities aren’t adequately staffed, residents often suffer from bedsores because they are not turned and repositioned often enough. Residents also frequently suffer from avoidable malnutrition or dehydration because harried staff don’t have enough time to provide assistance with eating or drinking. Sometimes, residents suffer from preventable falls and resulting fractures because staff didn’t have the time to properly supervise them or respond to their call lights when the residents were in need of assistance to go to the bathroom.
If you have had a loved one suffer at the hands of a poorly run home, we want to help.
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