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Nursing Home Abuse : Abandonment

Abandonment May be the Cruelest Form of Nursing Home Neglect


What is the Legal Meaning of Abandonment?

Abandonment, when used in the context of a nursing home facility, is a general term that is linked with neglect and nursing home abuse.

Nursing homes have a duty and obligation to monitor its patients on a regular basis. Residents are in nursing homes for a reason: they are incapable of performing activities of daily living for themselves. They need constant attention by trained professionals. In addition to abandoning a patient and not providing appropriate monitoring in a nursing home, deserting an elderly patient or leaving a patient unattended in a public or private place can be seen as willful abandonment.


How Prevalent Is Elderly Abuse and Abandonment and Elopement?

According to some studies, approximately one to two million people are injured or neglected by nursing home staff year in and year out. Moreover, one out of every 25 residents is being financially exploited by nursing home care givers. The National Center for Elderly Abuse reports that more than 470,000 cases of abuse or abandonment are reported yearly.

No doubt, nursing homes underpay and over work their nursing home employees. Nursing home aides and nurse assistants work long hours - some in excess of 16 hours per day - under the threat of termination and license revocation from their employer. While stress and being tired is no excuse for patient or resident abandonment, nursing home owners and operators have a duty and responsibility to ensure that adequate staff is employed and are properly trained to care for its residents.

Abandonment can have significant effects on a patient. When a resident is not monitored properly, a resident may suffer from complications related to his disease process.


Signs and Symptoms of Bad Nursing Home Care

Signs and symptoms that you should recognize as potential complications that your loved is not receiving the level of care that may required include the following:
  • Development of pressure sores or decubitus ulcers;
  • Change in mental status;
  • Dehydration and malnourishment;
  • Frequent falls and/or unexplained injuries or bruising;
  • Stroke like symptoms


Information

Please download a FREE Report regarding Signs and Symptoms of Nursing Home Abuse and Neglect.

If you or your loved one has been abused or neglected in a nursing home, you need to contact an experienced nursing home lawyer immediately. The Rasansky Law Firm handles nursing home abuse and neglect cases across Texas and the United States.


At The Rasansky Law Firm YOU Come First

We pride ourselves on making YOU, our client, our first priority. You are the most important element of our law practice, and we want YOU to feel that way with every interaction you have with our law firm. If you need help with your nursing home abuse and wrongful death case, please contact the Dallas based lawyers at the Rasansky Law Firm at 1-877-405-4313.


The experienced lawyers at the Rasansky Law Firm have the resources to help guide you through the process of your nursing home case; answer your questions and work to help you achieve results that will try to ensure that this type of behavior does not happen again. Call us today for a Free Consultation and put our experience to work for you immediately.

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