| Nursing home neglect and abuse occurs more often | | | | been uncovered involving staff members, some to |
| than most of us prefer to imagine. Currently in the | | | | the point of near-death. Other times, a patient may |
| United States, there are well over one million nursing | | | | abuse another patient while the facility staff turns a |
| home residents. This number is only expected to | | | | blind eye to the situation. |
| further increase in the future. Nursing homes across | | | | Abuse can be classified as physical, which includes |
| the country make billions of dollars every year for | | | | unreasonable restraints, beatings, or inappropriate |
| attending to elderly patients in exchange for social | | | | drugging. Abuse can also be psychological. Along with |
| security and other benefits. But unfortunately, not all | | | | abuse there may occur neglect. Neglect can also be |
| nursing homes have a very good record when it | | | | physical, such as a failure to provide meals for a |
| comes to actually delivering the adequate care that | | | | patient. Neglect may also be the result of a failure to |
| they are paid to administer. In addition to improper | | | | aid the patient with those things that they need help |
| care, an unforgivable occurrence at some nursing | | | | with, such as restroom assistance or dialing a phone. |
| homes is also the physical abuse inflicted upon some | | | | A good law firm dealing in personal injury cases offer |
| elderly patients by the nursing home staff. Many | | | | representation for nursing home abuse cases. |
| occasions of brutal and unprovoked beatings have | | | | |