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What Are Reasons For Engaging The Services Of The Nursing Home Abuse Attorney?

Author: Grace Roberts
by Grace Roberts
Posted: Apr 21, 2017

As far as common knowledge goes, nursing homes are places where the sick and the ailing, the old and the infirm, are provided with medical, physical, emotional and evens psychological care. But unfortunately that is not the case in some of the nursing homes as today a large number of cases are being reported where extremely inhuman, unhygienic and highly humiliating abuse is going on within the supposedly safe precincts of the nursing homes. Today it is not uncommon to hear reports of nursing home abuse cases where apart from gross negligence of duty occurs on the part of the nursing assistants, they also are reported to be perpetrators of crimes that are considered inhuman and indecent. However sad it is that a crime once committed upon the elderly at their most vulnerable stage cannot be reverted, there is a slight ray of hope that the law is on their side and will be a great instrument in punishing the culprit and ensuring that more residents of the nursing homes are not unduly hurt. To avail the help of the law, it is essential to engage the services of nursing home abuse lawyer who has specialized in the field of nursing home abuse cases. Such attorneys and lawyers are an assurance that the culprit would be punished and found guilty and ensuring that for the victim the justice is done.

The instances of cases that amount to nursing home abuse which are considered gross offenses and which warrant a very severe legal punishment include:

  • Neglect of nursing activities and negligence in their duties towards the patients.
  • Physical, emotional, sexual, and psychological assault casing pain and discomfort to the patient.
  • Negligence in the discharge of their duties towards providing medicines, food and other facilities that must be done punctually and regularly.
  • Not attending to their personal hygiene, like bathing the patients, changing their clothes, washing them, and changing their disposable garments.

Apart from the abuse caused by the negligence off duties on the part of the ensuing assistants, there are other silent abuses like not speaking or comforting them, ignoring their pleas for food and water when they are hungry or thirsty, not providing them with adequate covering when cold and many such negligence that come under the purview of abuses.

Besides these types of nursing home abuses, it is also reported that the fruits, and other snacks and eateries that he family members of the patients bring for them when visiting them are stolen by the nursing assistants. Sometimes the valuables possessions of the resident patients are also stolen especially valuables like ornaments, watches, and even money.

Thankfully, all these types of nursing home abuses are taken care of by the various nursing home lawyer and the nursing home attorney and they offer the respite needed from such trauma by arguing their cases in the court of law. In most cases, the lawyers have been really helpful in getting the culprit pronounced guilty and having them imprisoned for a particular period of time depending on the gravity and severity of the abuse.

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Author: Grace Roberts

Grace Roberts

Member since: Mar 31, 2017
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