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The Best Prevention

Nursing home neglect and abuse is a serious problem affecting thousands of residents who are dependent on Raleigh and Fayetteville nursing homes for care. Nursing home neglect can be difficult to recognize without proper information and is often covered-up by staff. At the law firm of Brent Adams & Associates we feel that nursing home neglect and abuse must be prevented. The best way to do that is to hold nursing homes accountable for their actions and the actions of its employees.

Experience

Brent Adams & Associates is dedicated to pursuing claims arising out of nursing home neglect and abuse. Because many residents at nursing homes have limited abilities to communicate, identifying and dealing with nursing home neglect and abuse requires knowledge of your loved ones rights and experience.

Brent Adams & Associates handles nursing home neglect and abuse cases on a regular basis. In addition, we have available to us experts in all healthcare fields including medical doctors who specialize in various fields including geriatrics, nutrition, surgery, also experts in nursing, nursing home administration and other professionals knowledgeable in nursing home matters.

Cases of Negligence

We handle nursing home cases involving malnutrition, bed sores, open wounds, dehydration, weight loss, falls, burns, infections, inadequate supervision (walk aways), over sedation and negligence in many other forms. Numerous federal and state laws were developed to provide nursing home patients protection from abuse and neglect. Additionally, patients have privacy, security and other rights.

Patients Rights

Nursing home neglect can some times be difficult to detect. Residents are protected by the Nursing Home Reform Act and Americans with Disabilities Act. Nursing home patients may find themselves subject to dozens of adverse conditions through no fault of their own - bed injuries, bed sores, falls, fractures, malnutrition and dehydration are some of the more prominent injuries. If you suspect that your loved one could be a victim of nursing home neglect or abuse, you may wish to have your case evaluated.

Free Evaluation

If you would like for us to evaluate a case involving nursing home abuse or neglect, please fill out our online form. We will have a member of our staff contact you quickly.

Care & Concern

We will handle the case of your loved one in a caring and sensitive manner. When our loved one does have to go to a nursing home, it is important that they be treated with the best medical care and with dignity and respect. Unfortunately, this does not always occur even in the best of nursing home facilities. Please give us a call. The only way to stop this from happening in the future is to hold nursing homes accountable for their actions and the actions of its employees.

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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!