Posts tagged Nursing Home Negligence

• Preventing Nursing Home Abuse and Neglect

  Ken Margolin | January 01, 2007 1:00 PM | 0 CommentsBoston, MA Category: Nursing Home & Elder Abuse
  

  It is frightening to think about the vulnerability of seniors in nursing homes. Stories of nursing home abuse and nursing home neglect show up with alarming frequency in the news and some sources claim that these incidents are increasing as funding decreases across the healthcare system, leading to the staffing problems that create situations for abuse and neglect. Many of the instances of...

• Nursing Home Negligence Verdict

  Ken Margolin | October 17, 2006 7:00 AM | 0 CommentsBoston, MA Category: Nursing Home & Elder Abuse
  

  Juries continue to show their appreciation of the sanctity of life even for older and ill individuals. A Middlesex County jury awarded $285,000 ($441,665 with interest) to the family of an 80 year old nursing home resident who suffered severe burns from uncovered and excessively hot radiators. The woman died subsequent to her injuries. While the jury did not believe that the resident's death was...

• Nursing Home Neglect - Dehydration and Malnutrition

  Ken Margolin | October 13, 2006 7:00 AM | 0 CommentsBoston, MA Category: Nursing Home & Elder Abuse
  

  Few choices are more emotionally wrenching than entering a family member into a nursing home. The only purpose for removing a loved one from their home and placing them into an institution, is the belief that they will be well care for, protected when they can no longer live on their own or with family help. Nursing home neglect is a disgrace that should never occur. Dehydration and malnutrition...

• Buyer Beware-Nursing Home Neglect

  Staff Writer | July 03, 2006 4:02 PM | 0 CommentsBoston, MA Category: Nursing Home & Elder Abuse
  

  Your stay at a nursing home in Massachusetts may be a one way ticket to a hospital. Today the Boston Globe reports the series woes prevalent in Massachusetts nursing homes. The report cites lack of qualified staffing and overreliance on nurse practitioners (rather than M.D.'s) as a cause. What could be minor medical problems--such as dehydration, urinary tract infections, chronic pulmonary...