The adage is true: knowledge is power. Knowing your rights and the policies that shape quality care is incredibly important to bettering the nursing home and care facility industry. But there is also power in using your voice. For those residents who are still able to advocate for themselves or are passionate about advocating for […]
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Our local efforts to prevent abuse have helped make great strides in protecting our most vulnerable elderly population. However, sometimes help is needed at a higher level. In the past decade an effort has been made at the federal level to reform the nursing home industry, address staffing needs, and so much more. In order
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Our focus and specialty at Gharibian Law is primarily elder abuse and neglect cases, specifically those taking place in nursing homes. However, we have a few other law specialties that allow us to help other members of our community find justice for their loved ones. One of those areas of laws we practice is Wrongful
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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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Though we’ve talked extensively about elder abuse, you may still be wondering what the legal definition is. What, according to California law constitutes abuse? That is a very simple yet important question with a few simple answers. We know that understanding abuse and its causes is one of the best ways to prevent abuse. The
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Good professional care for your loved one is vital. More than ever, it is important to ensure anyone caring for America’s elderly is qualified, caring, knowledgeable, kind, thorough, and competent. Accidents happen, things slip through the cracks, but we can certainly do everything in our power to ensure quality care. To start, ask these 10
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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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The road to a staffing standard final rule has been long. For decades this problem has permeated the industry, wreaking havoc on resident care standards. Not to mention employee happiness, burnout, and turnover, as well as nursing home accountability standards. Now, two years after the Biden Administration’s nursing home legislation proposals, we have a DHS
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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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