Category Archives: Nursing Home Abuse

Can You Sue a Nursing Home for a Fall?

In the 1990s, a popular advertising campaign aired on televisions throughout the United States. It depicted an elderly woman shouting, “Help! I’ve fallen and I can’t get up!” This campaign was memorable for all the wrong reasons, and worse, the response it received seemed to make light of the very serious issue of elderly falls…. Read More »

Can You Sue a Nursing Home for Failing to Prevent Bedsores?

Nursing homes have a duty to ensure that elderly residents receive the necessary care and services to attain or maintain the highest practicable physical, mental and psychosocial well-being. When nursing homes violate that duty by failing to provide the quality of care that is required, the facility may be held liable for the negligent acts… Read More »

What Is Being Done About Nursing Home Abuse?

The elderly often suffer from nursing home abuse because facilities are short-staffed, staff is untrained or owners are excessively profit-driven and cut corners at the expense of their residents. The New York Times ran an article several years ago about the long-term efforts to get effective legislation passed that deals with elder abuse. The article… Read More »

What Legal Protections Do The Elderly Have Against Nursing Home Abuse?

In 1986, Congress became concerned about nursing home abuse, and subsequently, upon its request, the Institute of Medicine conducted a study of nursing home conditions that led to the legislature passing the Nursing Home Reform Act (a section of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1987). The act created significant reform, including establishing that nursing… Read More »