Common types of nursing home abuse
Nursing home abuse comes in many ugly forms. Some of the most popular kinds of nursing home abuse include:
- Verbal abuse – The use of profanity, vulgar language, name calling, mockery, belittling the resident, etc. are all considered verbal abuse. Verbal abuse may not seem dangerous but it insidiously develops to physical abuse which can be violent and fatal.
- Physical Abuse – Pushing, shoving, hitting, tugging at the hair, electrocution, and so on are all considered physical abuse.
- Bed Sores – Bed sores are something that most immobile nursing home residents are susceptible to. Failure to prevent these bed sores can be considered as nursing home abuse.
- Unlawful restraint – Restraint techniques which were used commonly in the past have now been deemed illegal and the use of such devices will be considered abuse.
Your elderly loved one is living out the last few years of his or life and certainly deserves to live in peace and with dignity. You pay nursing home’s exclusively to care for them, and staff members are solely present to take care of them. It is sad that the same people that are supposed to care for them end up abusing them.
If you believe your loved one may be a victim of abuse, it is time to have an Iowa nursing home abuse lawyer investigate the matter. All you need is to visit USAttorneys.com and utilize the interactive map to find an attorney for you. You should see a row of them appear; call one of them right now!
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Someone needs to pay! And perhaps more than one person!
