Nursing Home Abuse

After you help your elderly loved one enter a nursing home, you may not think to look for signs that negligence is happening. However, since older nursing home residents need more physical help with certain tasks, negligence is a serious concern for many of them....

When your loved one lives in a nursing home or long-term residential facility, you hope they will receive the highest standard of care. Unfortunately, acts of abuse and neglect are all too common in nursing homes. In fact, one-third of all nursing homes in the U.S....

Placing an aging loved one in an Ohio nursing home may require families to make regular visits to ensure the staff provides quality care. Monitoring for physical signs of abuse may alert a family to mistreatment or habitual patient neglect.  Common evidence of abuse...