Fighting For The Elderly, Vulnerable and Injured.
Remedies for Dementia Residents - Dementia affects over 5 million people in the United States. Facilities that are overworked and understaffed sometimes characterize behaviors of older people with dementia as “resistant behavior.” Nursing homes and long-term care...
Felicia Whitcomb was 89 and lived in a skilled nursing facility here in Northern California. Felicia required two CNAs to lift her safely out of bed. Unfortunately, her care facility was understaffed, which meant that the staff had to take shortcuts. One day,...
Discovery Sanctions Issued Against Defense Attorney Discovery Sanctions Issued Against Defense Attorney – Federal Judge Paul Grewal from the Northern District of California recently issued an order in a civil rights case against the defense counsel on a Motion Seeking...
Poorly Trained Nursing Staff Fail Poorly Trained Nursing Staff Fail – A state and federal government report found that a nursing home violated mandatory reporting rules and failed to “recognize the behaviors of Sexual Elder Abuse.” Multiple nurses and staff at the...
Study Finds Lower Quality of Care at For-Profit Nursing Home Chains In 2012, over half of nursing home chains were operated by corporate chains. Facilities owned by the largest for-profit chains were reported to have a lower quality of care. In a recent study reported by the Official Journal of the Medical Care Section, American Public Health Association, the study…
Nursing Home Employee Posts Nude Snapchat of 93-Year-Old Resident A former employee of a nursing home has now been charged with a felony after posting a video of a 93-year-old resident to Snapchat wearing only a bra. This new case follows a December ProPublica and...
Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals – Family Not Bound by Arbitration Clause The Sixth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals held that a deceased Kentucky nursing home resident’s purported agreement to arbitrate against the facility does not block wrongful death claims brought on...
73 Year Old Nursing Home Resident Found in a Large Dumpster Behind Facility 73 Year Old Nursing Home Resident Found in a Large Dumpster Behind Facility - Unbelievable. Another story of a nursing home resident found dead outside the facility before the nursing home...
Protecting Your Rights in Nursing Homes Protecting Your Rights in Nursing Homes – As with most life milestones, signing up for a nursing home means filling out a lot of paperwork. In addition to financing, rules and procedures, emergency contacts and vitamin supplements, the nursing home industry also includes sections that protect themselves from wrongful accusations. While this is a…
At first, blush, when you hear the term bed sores it doesn’t sound serious. However, we have to take immediate notice because bedsores are a sign of serious neglect. Bedsores can develop quickly; if a person is not receiving the proper amount of circulation within their body, (usually due to lack of activity), weak spots can form on the skin…