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Elder abuse is a growing concern in the country. This is because it can take on many forms, including sexual, physical, and financial abuse. It is also not easily detectable. In an article published by the New England Journal of Medicine, elder abuse affects at least 10 percent of America’s seniors. This number, however, is …

Some signs of elder abuse can be obvious. If there is physical abuse or neglect there are often bruises or other physical signs. However, there are other types of elder abuse that are often harder to spot. Financial elder abuse is a growing problem in the United States. It can be referred to as “adult …

Elder abuse is an unfortunate occurrence in today’s society. There are many different types of abuse that can occur involving senior citizens and some consider this demographic to be one of the most vulnerable populations. In Las Vegas, the District Attorney’s office is assembling a special team to prosecute elder abuse cases. This came in …

When making the decision to place a loved one in a nursing home, it is important to research your choices carefully. There are many ways to research nursing homes online; from reading reviews to websites offered by medicare and medicaid who provide detailed ratings on individual facilities. When researching the causes behind elder abuse in …

When making the decision to place a loved one into an assisted living or a nursing home, one should research the facility that they are considering. Make sure that they have all needed accreditation and licensing to be operating. One might also consider checking whether or not they are being or have been investigated by …

Making the decision to place a loved one into the care of a nursing or an assisted living facility is never an easy choice to make. With reports of nursing home abuse seeming to occur with regularity, choosing a facility is of the utmost importance. One must also take into consideration any contracts that are …

When people think of nursing home or elder abuse, most conjure images of unexplained bruising, soiled clothing and sheets, and bed sores. There is another type of elder abuse that occurs frequently and that is financial elder abuse. The financial abuse occurs when someone who has financial control of a senior’s assets takes the money …

One of the things that we look for when evaluating an elder abuse case is patterns. If a facility has a pattern of poor patient care, that lends strength to the case. Here’s a nursing home in California that appears to be falling into this category. A family whose relative died in a nursing home …

In many of our stories, elder abuse is a physical act like medical malpractice or battery, but there is another form of elder abuse that be just a troublesome. That’s financial elder abuse. An elder who finds themselves without any money to cover necessary medical expenses due to fraud will have nowhere to turn except …

One of the sneaky tricks that health care officials do is bind their patients and their families into arbitration agreements. Nursing homes are especially bad about this. What an arbitration agreement does is forbid the two parties from hearing about an abuse situation in court. Instead, it gets settled in private through an arbitration committee. …