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Families have a lot riding on the nursing home facilities, giving their parents, grandparents, and relatives the benefit of the doubt that they’ll be taken care of with compassion and attention.
But when that faith is shattered, the results can be absolutely devastating. Nursing home abuse and neglect can leave vulnerable residents in a whole world of hurt, dealing with physical injuries, emotional scars, financial exploitation, and a loss of dignity that nobody should ever have to go through.
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The Hidden Reality
The harsh reality is that many cases of nursing home abuse just get swept under the rug for weeks, months or even years. What look like warning signs are often dismissed as part of aging and, as a result, the mistreatment just keeps on happening while the residents are either too scared or unable to speak up for themselves.
Your Legal Options
The good news is that families aren't left with no options. Our Chicago nursing home abuse attorneys are all too familiar with these situations and are ready to roll up their sleeves to help investigate your concerns, gather any evidence you might need, identify who's responsible, and then take those people to task for their negligence by filing a nursing home abuse lawsuit.
Take Action Today
If you think your loved one has suffered at the hands of nursing home abuse or neglect, don't just sit back and wait for things to get worse.Give Chicago Nursing Home Abuse Law Group a call at (312) 555-8742. We're here 24/7 to have a no-cost consultation to discuss your case and go over your options. No Fee Unless We Win.
What is Nursing Home Abuse?
Nursing home abuse is a form of elder abuse that happens when a resident gets hurt because the people looking out for them deliberately take actions that cause harm. That can take many forms, including physical violence, emotional torment, sexual misconduct, and outright financial exploitation.
A lot of the time, the effects of abuse go way deeper than just visible injuries, and victims often end up suffering mental harm, fear, anxiety, depression, and a loss of trust that can really affect their quality of life.
The Difference Between
Nursing Home Abuse and Neglect
While these terms get thrown around a lot together, they’re not the same thing.
Abuse is when someone does something deliberately that causes harm to a nursing home resident. Examples include hitting a resident, making threats, stealing from them or deliberately withholding care they need.
Neglect, on the other hand, happens when a facility or caregiver just doesn’t provide the level of care a resident needs. This could mean failing to feed them properly, ignoring their medical needs, ignoring personal hygiene, or allowing preventable injuries like bed sores and falls to happen.
Whether the harm is because of some deliberate bad behaviour or just careless inaction, both abuse and neglect can have really serious consequences, including physical harm, for nursing home residents and their loved ones.
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The Types of Nursing Home Abuse Cases We Handle
Nursing home residents deserve to live in an environment where they’re treated with respect, dignity, and compassion. Sadly, some facilities just don’t meet those basic standards, resulting in abuse, neglect, and preventable injuries.Our Chicago nursing home abuse attorneys are familiar with all sorts of cases where caregivers, staff, administrators, and nursing home operators have let people down. Below are some of the most common forms of nursing home abuse and neglect that might lead to nursing home abuse claims.
Physical Abuse
This is when a resident gets hurt physically as a result of some form of intentional force or violence. Because a lot of nursing home residents are elderly, disabled, or medically vulnerable, even a small act of aggression can lead to serious injuries.
Hitting and Pushing
Residents may get struck, slapped, punched, kicked, or otherwise physically assaulted by staff members, caregivers, visitors, or even other residents. Physical abuse can result in bruises, cuts, broken bones, head injuries, and emotional trauma.
Emotional and Psychological Abuse
Not all abuse leaves visible injuries, emotional and psychological abuse, including mental abuse, can be just as damaging and cause long-term mental and emotional suffering.
Improper Restraints
Improper restraints may include tying residents to beds or chairs, restricting their movement when there's no medical reason to do so, or administering medications just to control their behaviour rather than to treat an actual medical condition. Using unnecessary restraints can cause physical injuries, emotional distress, a loss of mobility, and a lower quality of life.
Hitting and Pushing
Residents may get struck, slapped, punched, kicked, or otherwise physically assaulted by staff members, caregivers, visitors, or even other residents. Physical abuse can result in bruises, cuts, broken bones, head injuries, and emotional trauma.
Emotional and Psychological Abuse
Not all abuse leaves visible injuries, emotional and psychological abuse, including mental abuse, can be just as damaging and cause long-term mental and emotional suffering.
Sexual Abuse
Sexual abuse is one of the most disturbing forms of nursing home misconduct. Elderly residents, especially those with physical or cognitive impairments, are often unable to protect themselves or report what has happened.
Resident-on-Resident Abuse
Nursing homes have a big responsibility to keep a close eye on their residents and make sure they're protected from harm. When they don't keep a close enough eye on residents who have a history of being aggressive, violent, or acting out inappropriately, then preventable attacks can happen. Unfortunately, it often comes down to not having enough staff on hand and poor oversight that leads to these problems.
Staff Misconduct
Caregivers, employees, contractors or anyone else who works for the nursing home can engage in some really terrible behaviour, such as unwanted sexual contact, harassment, exploitation or assault. The problem is that these victims are often some of the most vulnerable people in the nursing home, frail, elderly or with cognitive problems that make them more susceptible to abuse. Any kind of non-consensual sex at a nursing home is completely unacceptable and should be taken super seriously and looked into right away.
Financial Exploitation, Fraud & Theft
When someone in a position of power takes a resident's money or uses their financial info for their own gain, that's financial abuse. Residents may have their cash, jewellery, electronics or other personal items stolen, often because the thief knows the person is unlikely to notice it's gone or because they're struggling to report the theft. And it's not just theft, financial exploitation can also involve forging signatures, using coercion to change a resident's will or getting them to sign a fake contract for cash or property.
Neglect
Neglect is a big problem when caregivers just aren't providing the level of care that these people need to stay safe & healthy. It's not always a case of someone doing it on purpose, but the consequences can be just as bad as if they had done it on purpose.
Dehydration, Poor Nutrition & Poor Hygiene
When caregivers don't do enough to make sure residents get enough to eat or can't accommodate their dietary needs, it can lead to a host of serious health problems. Older adults are especially vulnerable to dehydration which can cause confusion, kidney problems, infections and hospitalisation. Residents who can't take care of themselves need some extra help with showering, brushing their teeth, getting dressed and staying clean, and failing to provide that can lead to infections, skin problems and all sorts of other issues.
Bedsores
Bedsores are basically a warning sign that something is going wrong. When residents are left sitting in one spot for too long without being moved, it can cause pressure ulcers, which can get infected and cause all sorts of pain and complications.
Medical Negligence
Medical negligence is when caregivers make mistakes with medication, like giving the wrong dose or mixing the wrong meds. It can also happen when they fail to provide treatment that the doctor ordered, ignore symptoms, or don't follow up on the care plan. And it gets even worse when nursing homes delay treating serious medical conditions or when they fail to respond when a resident is having a medical emergency. Delayed treatment can make things much worse and increase the chances of long term consequences or even death.
Take Immediate Action
If You Think Your Loved One is Being Abused, Seek Help Right Away If you have any reason to think that your loved one has been abused, neglected, or just plain mistreated, get in touch with a lawyer as soon as possible so they can protect them and preserve any evidence that might be important. Our team of Chicago nursing home abuse lawyers are here to help you figure out what went wrong and who is responsible. We're also here to get you the compensation and justice you deserve.
Call or text us at (312) 555-8742, and we’ll arrange a free consultation with one of our lawyers. They’re available 24/7 to take your call and answer any questions you might have.
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