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…
The senior population is most at risk of sustaining serious head trauma and physical injuries in fall accidents. Their age, declining health and other factors often create balance and mobility issues that increase the chances of falling even where there…
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…
If your elderly parent is a Virginia nursing home resident and seems to be inexplicably losing weight or is getting weak, it is possible your parent might not be eating enough. It is the duty of a nursing home to…
Any instance of abuse in Virginia is one too many. However, the most heartbreaking situations involve people who cannot defend themselves. Thus, the abuse of children, the elderly, incapacitated adults and even pets are especially heinous. According to CNN, in…
Nursing home care may become a necessity if your parents are no longer able to care for themselves independently. This is especially true when you work full time or live a distance from your elderly loved ones and are unable…
Elder abuse is sadly common. Approximately 10% of Americans 60 and older are victims of some type of abuse, share the National Council on Aging. Abuse and neglect often take place in nursing homes. Nursing home residents are at risk of abuse…
If you have an elderly parent or family member who is not capable of living alone, you may need to make the decision to place him or her in a Virginia nursing home or long-term care facility. While this decision…
If your parent resides in one of Virginia’s many nursing homes, you should familiarize yourself with the growing practice of chemical restraint that many nursing homes use to control patients who become loud, uncooperative or obstreperous. Human Rights Watch recently…
