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Recognizing the Warning Signs of Nursing Home Abuse and Neglect
Choosing to place an elderly loved one into a nursing facility or to relocate to a nursing home as a senior citizen can be a difficult decision. The choice can be further complicated by the risk of abuse in some nursing home facilities that may not maintain an expected quality and standard of care.
The National Institute of Health defines elder abuse as “doing something or failing to do something that results in harm of an elderly person, or puts a helpless older person at risk of harm.” The Elder Abuse Daily states that every 5 seconds, an elderly person is abused. Some families must cope with the harshest of information when they discover that their loved ones have become a part of that statistic.
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Ex-Employee Charged in Abuse and Torture of Nursing Home Residents
An article in The Oklahoman online reported that a former caregiver at a Los Angeles-based nursing home facility was sentenced to life for allegedly beating one nursing home resident to death and abusing many other elderly residents.
Witnesses claimed that the worker body-slammed a 78-year-old mute woman and attacked an elderly man in which the ex-employee crashed his knees into the man’s stomach. In addition, the former caregiver had made sexually explicit comments about the daughter of one of the patients. The widow of one of the former patients who was killed discovered that blunt force trauma and abuse caused her husband to suffer many broken bones and a head injury that eventually killed him.
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