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If Your Loved One Was Injured in a Nursing Home, We Can Help You Get Justice

The elderly population is in dire need of facilities that provide assisted living services, and this demand is only growing. As lifespans increase and one of the largest generations reaches their golden years, nursing home populations have increased dramatically. Every nursing home lawyer who has handled these cases understands that this, unfortunately, has been accompanied by an increase in abuse. Nursing home abuse and neglect can inflict terrible injuries, which, in many cases, could have easily been avoided had the nursing home not been negligent in some way.

Filing a nursing home abuse lawsuit can hold negligent nursing homes accountable for their actions and secure those harmed compensation to help cover the damages they have suffered. Vulnerable residents of nursing homes, assisted living facilities, and even those assisted at home can all be harmed by negligent care providers and may be entitled to compensation when they are abused or neglected.

If you or a loved one has suffered an injury due to the negligence of a nursing home while under their care, contact Turnbull, Moak & Pendergrass today. You can reach us at (205) 831-5040 or online for a free case evaluation ; we are available to discuss your rights and options further.

Types of Nursing Home Abuse

Nursing home abuse is when a nursing home resident is mistreated in a way that leads to them suffering harm. This most often occurs at the hands of nursing home staff, although visitors to the facility, as well as other residents, can be perpetrators of nursing home abuse. Abuse in nursing homes and similar assisted living facilities can take on a number of forms, each having its own way of inflicting injuries.

Nursing Home Physical Abuse

Physical violence is a common form of nursing home abuse that causes especially severe damage to older adults. As you age, you become more vulnerable since your bones become more brittle, you lose muscle mass, your skin breaks more easily, and healing is slower. Something as simple as being pushed often doesn’t do much damage to the average person but can lead to much more severe harm to an older adult since they can easily fall and suffer catastrophic injuries. Physical abuse is much easier to carry out against older adults compared to many other demographics since they have less ability to defend themselves, which makes them an attractive target to abusers. This abuse does not always entail the violent attacks often attributed to it. Physical abuse can consist of unnecessarily restraining a nursing home resident or even forcing a nursing home resident to take unnecessary medication against their will. Common examples of nursing home physical abuse include the following:

  • Physical strikes (punching, kicking, slapping)
  • Forcible restraint (tying down limbs or forcible confinement)
  • Scratching or cutting
  • Choking

Nursing Home Sexual Abuse

Nursing home residents can be the victims of sexual offenders who find their way into nursing homes. In many cases, sexual abuse is perpetrated by nursing home staff, but anyone ranging from visitors to the facility to other nursing home residents can sexually abuse nursing home residents. Nursing home residents of any gender, race, sexuality, age, or ability can suffer nursing home sexual abuse. This type of abuse consists of any sexual contact with an unconsenting nursing home resident. This includes nursing home residents who are unable to provide any effective communication of consent, such as disabled nursing home residents with mental illness or immobilizing conditions. Nursing home abuse can include inappropriate touching, verbal sexual harassment, sexual assault, and rape. Sexual abuse is also regularly accompanied by other forms of abuse, such as physical abuse and emotional abuse.

Nursing Home Emotional Abuse

Residents of nursing homes can face isolation, hopelessness, and other depressing thoughts as a consequence of their stay if proper measures are not taken. This can be made even worse by emotional abuse, where a resident suffers emotional trauma and pain as a result of harmful actions taken by others. Nursing home staff can threaten, belittle, gaslight, and intimidate nursing home residents and cause the development of serious mental health problems such as depression, anxiety, and even PTSD. While this emotional abuse is not as tangible as something like a physical assault that leaves clear visible injuries, the damage done can still have very harmful consequences.

Nursing Home Financial Abuse

Nursing home residents are unable to work and, therefore, are in an extremely vulnerable financial situation that others can take advantage of. This financial exploitation of nursing home residents is known as nursing home financial abuse. Nursing home residents can have many assets that can be stolen, extorted, or exploited via fraud. This applies to a nursing home resident’s money as well as their other valuables. Financial abuse of nursing home residents can be carried out by a much wider range of parties that can include family members, lawyers, doctors, nursing home staff, accountants, and even other nursing home residents.

Nursing Home Neglect

A nursing home has a duty to provide residents with a safe and healthy setting in which they can receive care while living through their later years. This can take much more work than many realize, and nursing homes can easily fail in this task, which often leads to serious harm to residents. The neglect of nursing home residents can be the grounds to file a lawsuit since it does violate a duty an assisted living facility has to their residents and, in many cases, leads to severe harm. This neglect is considered a form of elder abuse, and those harmed by nursing home neglect deserve compensation. Nursing home neglect involves a failure to provide essential services to nursing home residents. Nursing home residents sometimes will suffer neglect of basic living needs like proper nutrition, water, hygiene, and even proper living facilities like bathrooms and beds. The medical care required by many nursing home residents can, unfortunately, become a source of neglect. Staff may fail to administer medication altogether, provide the incorrect dosage, or give the wrong medication. Additionally, neglecting to assist residents with mobility issues can result in serious complications such as bedsores, further compromising their health and well-being.

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Nursing Home Abuse Damages

The damages caused by nursing home abuse can be extremely severe, considering how vulnerable older adults are. This is not only the case with economic damages like medical bills but also true when it comes to the many non-economic damages abuse causes, such as pain and suffering, mental anguish, and loss of enjoyment of life.

A nursing home abuse lawsuit can seek compensation for these damages. Nursing homes and other parties can contribute negligence that allows nursing home abuse to occur, which can make them liable for injuries they caused. Filing a lawsuit over these damages is not only important to attain rightful compensation but also to help ensure that harmful negligent behavior does not occur again.

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Nursing Home Abuse Causes

The root of much nursing home abuse lies in the operation of assisted care facilities and the lack or improper use of essential resources. Among these resources, the staff of nursing homes play a primary role in the cause of nursing home abuse. Most nursing home abuse is perpetrated by nursing home staff, and this is due to a number of reasons.

Understaffing

Chief among these is the lack of staff many nursing homes must contend with. Nursing home staff shortages are not at all unusual due to the ever-growing need for more skilled caregivers, the difficulty of the job, and a high turnover rate. As a result, nursing homes are unable to manage a safe caregiver-to-resident ratio, and the quality of care declines significantly. Without enough caregivers, the chance for neglect increases significantly, and the opportunities for abusive staff members to abuse increases since oversight decreases. Understaffing also means increased frustration of existing staff, which increases the likelihood of nursing home abuse.

Poorly Trained Nursing Home Staff

When the staff of a nursing home is not properly trained, then there are many opportunities for nursing home neglect and abuse to occur. If a nursing home caregiver lacks training or experience, they can either fail to provide adequate care because they lack the medical skills to assist nursing home residents, they cannot have a proper understanding of nursing home resident rights or the facility’s policies, and in some cases, they will not know how to deal with physically aggressive patients and may retaliate.

Lack of Nursing Home Background Checks

Nursing homes are supposed to vet their employees and ensure that they have not only proper training but also that they do not have a background that may indicate a likelihood that they may be a danger to residents. There are many cases in which nursing homes fail to check the backgrounds of employees with histories of sexual offense, abuse, physical violence, substance abuse, or dangerous mental illness.

As for general reasons why people individually decide to abuse nursing home residents, it varies greatly depending on the individual. Personal issues such as mental illness, addiction, stress, burnout, or even a personal history of being abused have been common factors seen in many cases of nursing home abuse.

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Signs of Nursing Home Abuse

Nursing home abuse rarely occurs without certain red flags being present. The sooner these signs are recognized, the better. Many of those with loved ones in nursing homes may notice certain details that seem off, and while not all of the following red flags alone immediately mean that abuse is occurring, several present signs at once warrant investigation and present a high likelihood that something is wrong.

  • Physical injuries that are inexplicable or suspicious
  • A drastic change in nursing home resident mood
  • Signs of fear or anxiety
  • Injuries such as bruises or cuts, especially around the wrists, throat, or genitals
  • Bedsores, malnourishment, dehydration, and other injuries due to neglect
  • Dramatic weight change
  • Nursing home staff refuses to let you speak in private
  • Unsanitary living conditions
  • Lack of communication
  • Large, inexplicable, or suspicious financial transactions
  • Frequent illness
  • Several injuries at various stages of healing
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What to Do if You Suspect Nursing Home Abuse

Nursing home abuse is a serious crime, and stopping it as soon as possible is imperative. If you have witnessed physical or sexual nursing home abuse, then do not hesitate to call 911 and report it since someone’s life could potentially be in danger. Nursing home abuse can also be reported to the following:

  • Local Area Agency on Aging (AAA) and Aging & Disability Resource Center (ADRC) 1-800-AGE-LINE (1-800-243-5463)
  • ElderCare Hotline at 1-800-356-9596
  • Assisted Living Facilities complaint hotline at 1-866-873-0366
  • Office of the State Long-Term Care Ombudsman Program 334-242-5753
  • Adult Protective Services (334) 242-1350

Other avenues of reporting elder abuse can be through an abused resident’s doctor. A long-term care ombudsperson can also provide assistance. Regardless of how you do it, report abuse as soon as possible.

Hire a Nursing Home Abuse Lawyer

Filing a nursing home abuse lawsuit can be incredibly challenging on your own. Despite having proof that you or a loved one was abused, there are still many complications that can arise when taking legal action. Defendants in these cases can and will use all kinds of strategies to deflect blame, claim injuries are not as severe, and generally reduce the amount of compensation they pay out to injured nursing home abuse survivors. They will undoubtedly have their own specialized legal representation, which makes hiring your own lawyer essential if you want your case to stand a chance.

Hiring a nursing home abuse attorney is the first step to take when it comes to maximizing the amount of compensation one receives from a settlement or court verdict. Turnbull, Moak & Pendergrass offers specialized legal representation and assistance to those who have been severely harmed through nursing home abuse and can provide invaluable insight tempered over years of experience getting our many satisfied clients the compensation they need. Our lawyers can work with you through every step of the process, from filing the lawsuit to going to trial, while maintaining close communication with you.

In addition to providing you advice on what your rights are and the best strategy to take when it comes to maximizing your claim, our firm can assist in a number of key parts of the legal process. Our lawyers can investigate your case and will know what to look for to establish liability and prove the negligence of those who owe you compensation. We can gather your medical records and bills and help to establish what damages you suffered, as well as their value. Most importantly, we can represent your interests when dealing with the defendant and their own legal team in court if a settlement cannot be reached.

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Consider Turnbull, Moak & Pendergrass for Your Nursing Home Abuse Lawsuit

If you or a loved one has suffered an injury due to nursing home abuse, the best way to fight for your rights and to get the most compensation possible is to hire an experienced and aggressive personal injury attorney.

Turnbull, Moak & Pendergrass is passionate about assisting those who have suffered the injustice of nursing home abuse. We pride ourselves on our ability to help our community by providing exemplary legal assistance to those in great need of an ally. Our mission is to help hold those responsible for causing injuries accountable for their actions, helping to prevent such negligence from happening again.

Contact us online or call (205) 831-5040 to schedule your free consultation. There is no obligation and no risk. We look forward to hearing from you.

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