A review article published recently in The New England Journal of Medicine reveals a deeply troubling statistic: 1 in every 10 older adults is a victim of some form of violence or abuse. Worse, researchers point out, this figure is all but certainly a vast underestimate considering it’s based on…
It started with a broken finger. It’s not clear how the elderly woman’s finger came to be broken, but it was clearly not treated properly. As a resident of a state-run nursing home providing around-the-clock care, that was the one thing she should have been able to count on. But…
Abuse and neglect of elderly nursing home patients is always reprehensible. But there is something even more gravely distressing about a victim who dedicated a good portion of her career to protecting seniors in nursing facilities. As a mother of six and the first administrator on the Area Agency on…
It is becoming standard in many nursing home abuse and negligence cases to find defendants pushing to have claims settled in arbitration. Often when nursing home patients are admitted, they and/or their relatives are bombarded with stacks of paperwork, which often include an “arbitration agreement,” binding parties who sign to…