Pennsylvania’s Department of Health is cracking down after a shocking report last year that elder abuse throughout the state’s thousands of nursing homes goes largely unnoticed and unpunished.
According a recent review article published in the New England Journal of Medicine, 10 percent of elderly Americans have suffered some form of physical, emotional, or financial abuse. Worse, researchers behind the article suggest that this figure is an underestimate.
Most people are very surprised to learn that, when a dispute arises between residents and nursing homes, residents are often forced to bring their case against the nursing home through arbitration instead of through a court of law.
