Canton Nursing Home Abuse Lawyers

What Constitutes Nursing Home Abuse?

Elder abuse in care facilities is not limited to physical violence and neglect, which means it’s often subtle and difficult to detect. Elder abuse also includes manipulation, coercion, and financial or psychological abuse. Forced revision of wills, deeds, or trusts to compensate caregivers, loss or theft of personal property, and demands for cash withdrawals or property gifts can all constitute elder abuse.

Common types of nursing home abuse include:

• General neglect and failure to provide basic needs, such as leaving residents unattended, administering improper medications, dismissing resident complaints; failure to ensure safety and security; failing to clean them or their living spaces; and not reporting illness or injuries
• Physical abuse or violence
• Emotional, verbal, and psychological abuse
• Sexual abuse

Physical abuse often takes a much more blatant and obvious form and can have long-term and even life-threatening effects; its most extreme result is death. Physical abuse in a nursing home could include:

• Striking, hitting, or slapping
• Punching, kicking, or biting
• Pushing, grabbing, or shoving
• Restraining or confining with ties or other forms of restraint
• Using an object to cause injury
• Physical abuse can cause severe, long-term, or even life-threatening injuries to a resident. Without proper medical attention, physical abuse in a nursing home can even result in death

Signs and Effects of Nursing Home Abuse

The signs and effects of nursing home abuse can take a variety of forms, including physical and psychological. Some of the common signs an elder is experiencing abuse or neglect include:

• Changes in behavior and personality
• Bruises, welts, and black eyes
• Cuts or lacerations
• Wounds
• Significant weight loss
• Dehydration and malnutrition
• Bedsores
• Chronic pain
• Increased susceptibility to infection or illness
• Insomnia
• Anxiety and excessive fear of others
• Eating disorders
• Withdrawal and depression
• Refusal to take medication
• Agitation
• Fractures, broken bones, or dislocations
• Head, neck, and back injuries
• Death

Solutions to Nursing Home Abuse

Financially, the cost of treating elder abuse for severe physical injuries alone adds more than $5,000,000 to healthcare costs annually. Psychological injury treatment possibly exceeds even that. CNN reported that nursing homes are slow to investigate claims of elder abuse, or even attempt to hide them. In addition, there is a high bar for substantiation of abuse, and often allegations against caregivers are dismissed since many of the elderly victims are considered unreliable.

Experienced nursing home abuse lawyers are critical to helping you pursue compensation and justice in your nursing home or elder abuse case. KNR elder abuse attorneys have decades of experience advocating for the elderly and their families to pursue the best treatment for the elderly.

What Can Nursing Home Abuse Victims Recover?

The nursing home abuse attorneys at KNR have helped numerous Canton-area nursing home and elder abuse patients gain compensation for physical, psychological, and financial damages. Some of the possible damages you may be entitled to are your:

• Medical expenses (current & future)
• Lost income & Finacial losses
• Pain and suffering
• Mental anguish
• Disfigurement
• Loss of consortium (the negative effect your injuries had on your relationship)
• Wrongful Death
• Punative Damages

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Our Canton Attorneys Will

• Investigate and find those at fault for the nursing home neglect.
• Interview witnesses, medical professionals, and experts.
• Communicate with the insurer, clarify liability, and pursue max compensation.
• Determine full and fair value for what you endured.
• Keep you informed and involved. KNR is available by phone, text, email, or Zoom.
• Protect your rights and, if necessary, take your case to court.
• Never charge you upfront. If there’s no recovery, there’s no cost.