Nursing Home Negligence

When families decide to place their elderly loved ones in nursing homes or elder communities, they usually feel it is in their loved ones best interests. It is common for people to assume that when senior citizens reside in nursing homes, they will receive the treatment, medical attention and care they need to have a peaceful life. Yet, the sad reality is that many nursing homes are investigated each year after reports of negligence have been made.

Signs of Nursing Home Negligence

In the United States, nursing home negligence is a growing area of concern for both law enforcement and families with elderly loved ones. Nursing home negligence occurs when a staff member neglects an elderly resident, fails to provide sufficient care or acts in a manner that is reckless. Common signs of nursing home negligence include: 

• Physical Abuse (bed sores, open wounds, bruises, broken bones, bleeding, sudden weight loss or burns)
• Emotional Abuse (elder person being withdrawn, elder person not talking with family members or elder person engaging in infant-like behavior, i.e. thumb sucking)
• Blatant Neglect (malnutrition, dehydration, elder person wearing dirty clothes, elder person sleeping in soiled linens or elder person begging for food)
• Financial Abuse (elder person missing money or elder person missing valuable property)

Once people believe that their elderly loved ones are suffering from nursing home negligence, it is extremely important that they are pro-active and report the abuse to nursing home management. If management does not investigate or rectify the neglect, families should review their legal options with a lawyer who has prior elder abuse case experience, like the lawyers at Cohn & Swartzon. At Cohn & Swartzon, we will work tirelessly to put an end to nursing home negligence and to hold nursing homes and their staff accountable for their reckless actions.

Orange County Nursing Home Negligence Lawyers

If you are looking for Orange County nursing home negligence lawyers that are experienced, dependable and committed to obtaining exceptional results, look no further than Cohn & Swartzon. We represent those who have been injured and/or involved traumatic accidents.

Contact our Orange County nursing home negligence attorneys at Cohn and Swartzon.