More than one in ten nursing home residents suffer from skin infections like pressure ulcers. These preventable conditions can lead to serious complications—and your loved one could be at risk. Skin becomes more delicate with age, making conditions like pressure sores and cellulitis develop quickly and heal up to four times slower. If your loved […]
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Nursing home neglect and abuse can leave families facing physical injuries, emotional scars, or even the loss of a loved one. Seeking accountability through a settlement provides a way to hold facilities responsible while offering financial relief to help ease the burden. However, if your family is facing this situation, you may have questions about
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Abuse and neglect are closely related and often look similar. Spotting the difference informs how you handle the situation. Abuse and neglect can happen to both residents in nursing homes and elderly Americans aging at home. As a loved one, it’s important to understand the likelihood of abuse by not only professional caregivers, but family
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We often talk about resident rights in terms of quality of life, daily activities, and general care. But your rights stretch well beyond the right to a shower, good nutrition, and freedom from abuse. In fact, your rights encompass all aspects of your care, including your medical rights. As a nursing home resident, it might
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The fear of retaliation is a common result of consistent abuse. As a result, care facility residents and their families might keep quiet about their needs, neglect, and abuse, simply to prevent worsening circumstances. Fear of retaliation is almost a hidden form of abuse within nursing homes because both the retaliatory action and the fear
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It is no secret that better quality nursing equals better quality care. Over the past few years, it has been a focus of nursing home care advocates to ensure the care residents are getting is the best possible. From staffing standards to education, to better investigations, battling isolation, and improving complaint substantiation rules advocates have
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There are a number of factors that come into play regarding nursing home safety. With staffing standards in the news, it’s hard not to talk about general nursing home safety and some of the causes as well as solutions. Staff to resident ratios have a large part to play in ensuring nursing home safety, but
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During the COVID-19 pandemic, we saw the most devastating increase in isolation and loneliness in nursing homes ever. Restricted by altered, or non-existent, visiting policies, residents were often left alone in their rooms, separated from family, and without social activities which were canceled. This isolation epidemic was eventually contested with the Essential Caregivers Act, but
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Navigating nursing home policies can be a confusing and stressful job. Unfortunately, some nursing homes and care facilities realize this and take advantage. It is important to not only know your rights as a nursing home resident, but also understand nursing home policies and laws. For example, when it comes to discharging residents from the
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One of the most tragic elements of the COVID-19 pandemic was nursing home visitation restrictions. These restrictions kept families apart at a time when long term care had never been worse, which has led to awful and intractable resident isolation. The lack of visitors also allowed signs of elder abuse to go unnoticed. Now, after
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