The death of a nursing home resident due to sun exposure should remind us that elder abuse and neglect comes in many forms, some more unexpected than others.
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.
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.
Members of the Attorney General's team have executed a search warrant on two Erie-area nursing homes. At one of these care facilities, Saint Mary’s Home of Erie East, the AG’s team left with information contained in computers, hard drives, and boxes that may lead to fines or convictions.
According to a new report, the average New Jersey nursing home has about six deficiencies, ranging from food preparation to fire exits without proper signage and lighting to physical abuse.
