Brunswick Nursing Home Abuse Lawyers
Nursing Home Abuse
Many seniors move down to the warm state of Georgia to live out their retirement years in peace and tranquility. Unfortunately, some Georgia elders experience abuse and negligence in nursing homes, and the consequences of these hideous crimes can be severe, both in terms of the seniors' health and well being and in terms of their finances.
Georgia nursing home abuse can be catalogued in one of the following four ways.
- Negligence – if a nurse fails to provide a healthy diet, regular doses of medications, clean bedding, social activities, or appropriate shelter; a nursing home resident can get sick and get depressed. When you visit, look for signs of negligence like: unexplained weight gain or loss, reduced social responses, bedsores, complaints of neglect.
- Financial abuse – believe it or not, some unscrupulous nursing home staff prey on elderly patients, particularly those with early stage dementia. The crimes they commit run the gamut from identity theft to forgery to pyramid/Ponzi schemes to out and out theft of valuables.
- Emotional abuse – the cruelty that's been documented at some nursing homes with respect to psychological humiliation, isolation, and deprivation might shock you. In some cases, bored nurses have left immobile patients locked up in their rooms for days or even weeks at a time. In other cases, staff members have refused medications or food and exercise, or other forms of nursing home neglect to "punish" inappropriate behavior.
- Physical and/or sexual abuse – perhaps the most disturbing kind of nursing home abuse involves actual bodily assaults. The kind of abuse can range from the relatively mild -- such as grabbing and rough handling -- to the criminal and horrid, such as sexual assault, assault and battery, and forced burning or dehydration. In some cases, elderly patients have been physically restrained against their will to their beds and beaten.
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If you suspect that one of your relatives or friends has been abused at a nursing home, you can get legal help to rectify the problems and bring the perpetrators to justice. Connect with the Georgia nursing home abuse attorneys of Farah & Farah today by calling 1.912.466.8896. Or, to learn more about our practice, please browse our Georgia personal injury website for more information.