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Mixing Elderly With Mentally Ill Can Be Dangerous For NC Nursing Homes
Description: Since many state hospitals shut down in 1999, North Carolina nursing homes have been taking in a number of mentally ill patients who can't afford care elsewhere. The result has been a number of violent incidents toward the elderly by the mentally ill patients - proving that the two groups should have separate care that speaks to their individual needs.
Nursing Home Financial Abuse Is A Growing Problem In North Carolina
Description: While many are familiar with elder abuse and elder neglect, fewer people know the extent and seriousness of elder financial abuse. If you have a loved one who is the victim of elder financial abuse in a nursing home or assisted living situation, you should speak with a lawyer immediately.
What Is A Nursing Home Care Plan? And Why Are Care Plans Important?
Description: A nursing home care plan is put into place to keep your loved one safe and healthy during their stay in a North Carolina nursing home or adult care facility. If nursing home staff do not follow a care plan, it can result in serious harm, injury, and even death.
North Carolina Nursing Home Falls: Some Fall Accidents Are Preventable
Description: Fall accidents are the most common cause of injury for the elderly and for those living in adult care facilities in North Carolina. But are all nursing home fall accidents simply accidents? Or are nursing home staff members to blame? Learn more about nursing home negligence and fall accidents in this article.
Four Activities For World Elder Abuse Awareness Day
Description: June 14 was World Elder Abuse Awareness Day - a perfect time to visit a loved one, to talk to your children about elder abuse prevention, or write a local politician about preventing nursing home neglect and abuse right here in North Carolina.
Understaffed NC Nursing Homes Lead To Neglect And Abuse
Description: Many of the shocking stories that come out of nursing homes have a common cause: North Carolina nursing homes are chronically understaffed. The lack of supervision, training, and knowledge in NC nursing homes all too often lead to nursing home abuse and nursing home neglect.
SmartMoney Magazine: Five Things Nursing Homes Won’t Tell You
Description: Nursing homes will certainly put on a good front when you are visiting their facility or when you are considering sending a loved one into their care. But according to the editors of SmartMoney Magazine, there are a number of facts about nursing homes that they like to keep to themselves.
North Carolina Nursing Home Abuse And Medical Restraints: Could Your Loved One Be Drugged?
Description: After one nursing home in North Carolina was caught using inappropriate medical restraints on their residents, many are wondering how widespread a problem medical restraint use is in adult care facilities. Learn more about how and why nursing home staffers abuse medical restraints.
Elopement And Wandering Deaths In North Carolina Nursing Homes | NC Nursing Home Neglect Lawyer
Description: One out of ten nursing home neglect lawsuits center around elopement or wandering cases - instances in which nursing home residents leave their care facilities and wander away. Many nursing home elopement cases end in serious injuries or death. Read more about nursing home elopement in North Carolina in this library article.
What Is A Silver Alert? | NC Nursing Home Neglect Lawyer
Description: Established in North Carolina in 2007, the Silver Alert system helps authorities locate missing senior citizen with cognitive disorders who have wandered from their caregivers or nursing homes. In a year alone, the Silver Alert system has helped police find over 100 seniors.
North Carolina Nursing Home Neglect: Dehydration | NC Nursing Home Negligence Lawyer
Description: While dehydration is not a common concern for the young or the healthy, older people, mentally ill people, or the disabled are at greater risk for dehydration, kidney failure, and malnutrition. Learn more about why dehydration is a common sign of nursing home negligence and how dangerous dehydration can be for your loved one in an adult care facility.
Nursing Home Abuse And Medication In North Carolina
Description: Overmedication and failure to medicate are becoming increasingly common in North Carolina nursing homes and adult care facilities. Overmedication often renders patients unresponsive and drugged, while undermedication can leave patients in medical danger and in great pain. Your elder loved one should be getting his or her medication regularly. If they are not taking their medication as prescribed, they could be victims of nursing home abuse and neglect.
North Carolina Nursing Home Abuse: Malnutrition
Description: Nursing home malnutrition can lead to infection, weakness, disease, confusion, and an overall lower quality of life. Do you know the causes of North Carolina nursing home malnutrition? Do you know the warning signs of North Carolina nursing home malnutrition?
Nursing Home Abuse And Restraint Use In North Carolina
Description: There is a proper time and place for the use of restraints in nursing home environments - in some cases, they can help keep patients safe. However, all too often restraints are used in instances of nursing home neglect and nursing home abuse.
Nursing Home Abuse Statistics
Description: Nursing home abuse and elder abuse incidents often go unreported. However, elder abuse in adult care facilities and hospitals across the nation is rampant. Below are some shocking statistics about the rate and types of nursing home abuse in the United States and North Carolina.
Spotting Nursing Home Neglect in North Carolina Assisted Living Facilities
Description: While incidents of physical and aggressive nursing home abuse can be very clear-cut and apparent, assisted living neglect can be harder to spot even though it can be just as dangerous and deplorable.
Warning Signs of Nursing Home Sexual Abuse and Elder Care Sexual Abuse
Description: Although many are familiar with cases of nursing home abuse or neglect, nursing home sexual abuse is often ignored or overlooked. However, as unthinkable as it may seem, there are hundreds of adult care sexual abuse cases a year - with a number of instances of nursing home sexual abuse reported in North Carolina annually.
North Carolina Assisted Living Neglect Attorney
Description: Residents residing in assisted living facilities are living independently, they still often require the care or assistance of the facility staff. If this care is not provided when it is needed, this can often times result in serious harm or injury to the individual in need. Unfortunately, assisted living neglect and abuse is on the rise in North Carolina and all across the United States. If your loved one has been injured by the hands of a negligent assisted living facility, you have legal options that you need to know about!
Tips For Communicating With Your Aging Parents About Nursing Home Abuse
Description: This article helps caregivers to understand the best ways to talk with their senior loved ones about nursing home neglect and elder care abuse.
Warning Signs of Financial Elder Abuse, Nursing Home Scams, and Fraud
Description: Although physical nursing home abuse and neglect is often apparent and leaves visual signs of harm, other types of elder abuse in assisted living facilities is much harder to spot. Specifically, financial elder abuse is widespread, extremely damaging, and is often invisible to loved ones until it is too late.
Recognizing Signs of Physical Nursing Home Abuse And Elder Care Abuse In North Carolina
Description: Physical nursing home or adult care abuse is much more prevalent than you may think - with 30 percent of North Carolina elder care facilities tallying an infraction. If you have a loved one in a nursing home, know the common signs of elder abuse so that you may continue to keep them safe and healthy.
Groups contend Tennessee legislation bolsters nursing home profits while ignoring patient rights
An employee of an Illinois nursing home was fired and arrested for aggravated battery.
"Troubled Nursing Facilities" List Includes Three from Kentucky
SHawnee, Kansas Nursing Home Fires Nurse after Abuse Allegations
Alabama's Department of Public Health Puts Veterans Nursing Home on Probation
Ohio Grand Jury Dismisses Neglect Charges Against Nursing Home After Resident Breaks Neck, Dies from Fall
Finding a suitable nursing home for a loved one insures their "golden years" won't be spent in a state of depression.