Youngstown 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, financial, and 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, failure to clean them or their living spaces, 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 and 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 abuse, and often allegations against caregivers are dismissed since many of the elderly victims are considered unreliable.

Experienced nursing home abuse lawyers are critical in 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 aging and injury as well as quality care for life.

What Can Nursing Home Abuse Victims Recover?

The first step in pursuing a nursing home claim is proving that nursing care negligence occurred. Once established, you need to show your injuries and subsequent harm resulting from that negligence.

While holding a nursing facility accountable can be difficult, our dedicated legal team will handle every aspect and aggressively pursue maximum compensation.

Our nursing home abuse lawyers can help recover your:

• Medical expenses
• Physical limitations
• Lost income
• Loss of consortium, or loss of personal relationships
• Disfigurement
• Pain and suffering
• Mental anguish

Set Up Your Free Consult

KNR’s Nursing Home Abuse Team Will:

• Answer your questions and concerns
• Keep you updated during all stages of the process
• Obtain medical and financial records about the extent of your losses
• Identify the responsible party
• Determine the fair and full value of your damages
• Negotiate for maximum compensation
• Fight for everything you deserve in court if necessary