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.
A nursing home worker employed by Elm Terrace Gardens in Lansdale, PA appears to have stolen personal checks and credit cards from an elderly resident once that resident passed away.
