Nursing home residents have more risk of injury than those who reside in an assisted living facility. After all, nursing homes provide skilled care, and residents are often more vulnerable to injury due to age-related health and mobility issues. Perhaps…
Those in Virginia Beach who entrust their loved ones to the care of nursing homes may justified in fearing the potential of abuse occurring. Accusations of nursing home abuse and neglect are not uncommon, yet when they are made, most…
Many cases of nursing home neglect and abuse occur due to staffing issues. It is difficult to keep well-trained staff at these facilities due to the difficult and demanding work, which includes having to work long days, physical aspects of…
If you and your family have spent considerable time weighing your options for quality care for a senior family member, chances are you compared several options for senior care facilities in Virginia before choosing one. Now that you are getting…
When a person is young, a fall is often more of an embarrassment than a serious matter. Because individuals often develop brittle bones as they age, a fall for a nursing home resident may be disastrous. Sometimes, falls in nursing…
Some Virginia families have senior relatives who, for no apparent reason, get up and wander. They may walk around the house, a care facility, or try to leave a residence to go somewhere else. The problem of senior wandering is…
Nursing home abuse and neglect is a sad reality here in Virginia and all across the United States. However, one of the more common questions asked is why nursing home abuse and neglect occurs in the first place. After all,…
When you consider the term nursing home abuse, you might think of physical injuries or emotional neglect. Unfortunately, many nursing home residents are also vulnerable to financial exploitation by their caretakers. If your loved one lives in a nursing home,…
Virginia residents like you entrust nursing homes to take care of your loved ones while following a certain standard of care and quality. Unfortunately, there are some instances in which your trust in the institution is betrayed and your loved…
Virginia nursing homes have a duty of care to their residents. Breaching that duty—often through negligence due to understaffing—results in serious and even fatal health problems. How does a lack of adequate nursing home staff lead to fatalities? According to…