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When an elderly person moves into a nursing home, the family places a tremendous amount of trust in the facility and its staff. If the patient is injured-or dies-due to improper treatment and neglect, that person or his or her family should explore taking action against the facility.
Causes of Nursing Home Abuse and Neglect
There are many different causes of nursing home abuse and neglect. These include:
- Failure to turn or move immobile patients
- Failure to bathe patients
- Failure to supervise patients in baths and showers
- Failure to monitor nutrition and hydration/malnutrition
- Failure to use bed rails
- Verbal abuse of residents
- Failure to supervise patients
- Failure to train staff properly
- Patients wandering away from the facility
- Reduced staff-patient ratios
Symptoms of Abuse or Neglect
The lawyers at Buckfire & Buckfire, P.C., recommend that families be alert to these signs of nursing home abuse:
- Pressure sores and bed sores,
- Infections, including gangrene
- Unexplained falls resulting in broken bones
- Medication error
- Fractures (frequently hips)
- Bed sores
- Debicutus Ulcers
- Sepsis
- Withdrawal, failure to speak, or
- Unusual fears
- Residents wandering away from the facility
Legal Rights
Patients and their families can file civil claims seeking money compensation for the injuries suffered due to nursing home neglect and abuse. In situations in which a patient dies due to the negligence of the facility, the family can file a Michigan Wrongful Death Claim for the loss of their loved one.
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Library for Nursing Home Abuse and Neglect:
- Pressure Sores and Bed Sores in Nursing Homes
Description: Michigan nursing home negligence lawsuits and medical malpractice cases are often filed Michigan nursing homes and facilities due to patient's developing bed sores and pressure sores in cities like Detroit, Lansing, Grand Rapids, Flint, Kalamazoo, Saginaw, Warren, Dearborn, and other major cities. - Patient Falls
Description: Nursing home injuries from patient falls and dropped patients may give rise to a Michigan nursing home neglect and negligence lawsuit. - Wandering Residents Leaving Faclities
Description: Nursing home negligence cases in Michigan are often filed after a patient wanders away from the nursing home or from the patient floor and suffers injuries. - Choking Injuries
Description: Michigan nursing home lawyers handling resident choking and asphyxiation cases in cities like Detroit, Lansing, Grand Rapids, Flint, Kalamazoo, Saginaw, Warren, Dearborn, and other major Michigan cities. - Stage 4 Bedsores | Michigan Nursing Home Lawyers
Description: Michigan nursing home lawyers discuss Stage 4 bedsores caused by neglect or abuse in nursing home, hospital, foster homes, rehabilitation clinics, and other facilities.
Frequent Questions for Nursing Home Abuse and Neglect:
- My mother was neglected in a Michigan nursing home and got very bad bed sore. What can I do?
- My mother fell in a nursing home in Detroit and broke her hip. It was diagnosed as a femoral neck fracture. The nursing staff was not supervising her when she fell. Can she file a Michigan nursing home neglect lawsuit to see money damages for her hip fracture?
Case Results for Nursing Home Abuse and Neglect:
- Detroit nursing home fall injury - Confidential
Web Resources for Nursing Home Abuse and Neglect:
- Citiizens for Better Care
Description: Citizens for Better Care is a non-profit advocacy agency for residents of nursing homes, adult foster care homes, assisted living programs and homes for the aged located in Michigan
- Michigan Nursing Homes
Description: State of Michigan web site helps the public compare nursing homes
- National Library of Medicine
Description: Information on pressure and bed sores including treatment and prevention from the NLM and NIH
- National Center on Elder Abuse
Description: Information, assistance, and advocacy on elder abuse issues
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Nursing Home Abuse and Neglect
- My mother was neglected in a Michigan nursing home and got very bad bed sore. What can I do?
- My mother fell in a nursing home in Detroit and broke her hip. It was diagnosed as a femoral neck fracture. The nursing staff was not supervising her when she fell. Can she file a Michigan nursing home neglect lawsuit to see money damages for her hip fracture?