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Nursing Home Abuse Incidents Happening Nationwide

Families turn to nursing homes to provideAccording to the 2001 Congressional report,
care and attention for their aging lovednursing home neglect and abuse is wide spread
ones. But all too often a family's reasonableand it cuts across racial, socio-economic and
expectation for medical professionalism andgeographic lines. Across the United States,
human kindness is met instead by thenursing home abuse is increasing. Between
heart-breaking reality of nursing home abuse.1996 and 2000, for example, the number of
According to a 2001 Congressional report,nursing homes cited for abuse during their
one-third of the United States' 1,600 nursingannual  inspections  more  than  doubled.
homes  were  cited  for  an  abuse violation.
Even more concerning than the number of
From Maine to California and from Colorado toreported abuse violations, however, are the
Texas, the number of nursing home abuseincidents that go unreported. Officials
violations is growing every year. In thebelieve that abuse is grossly underreported.
two-year period between January 1999 andPatients suffering from Alzheimer's disease,
January 2001, more than 9,000 nursing homedementia and paralysis are at particular
abuse reports were filed. Of these reports,risk. Not only does their impairment prevent
over 2,500 described an incident severethem from communicating their abuse to loved
enough to place a residents' health and evenones, it also renders them helpless in
life  in  immediate  jeopardy.preventing  their  future  attacks.
Reported types of abuse include sexual,There are over 18,000 nursing homes in the
physical and verbal. Another significantUnited States today, which house more than
area of abuse is nursing home neglect, which1.6 million people. Over the next twenty
can range from a caregivers' failure toyears, the number of nursing home residents
provide medications according to theis set to double, with the aging of millions
doctor-prescribed schedule to withholdingof baby boomers. As this population needs
food  and  even  water  from  patients.outside care, the number of residents grows,
and with that growth will come new
Dehydration and death have occurred as aopportunities  for  abuse.
result of this type of neglect. Abuse
violations are a serious concern in nursingNo city or state is immune; abuse statistics
homes across all fifty of the United States,encompass every geographic location and type
and are particularly egregious since elderlyof facility. Regardless of where you live,
and disabled residents are unable to protectnursing home abuse is a real and imminent
themselves  from  an  attack.danger for America's elderly.



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