If your loved one is injured or died through nursing home abuse or neglect, you will naturally be outraged on a number of levels.  While the damage and injury cannot be undone, thankfully, there is access to the courts where your loved one’s case can be brought in front of a jury, who can then read more...

CNYCentral.com reported on August 23, 2016 of the case of a Syracuse nursing aid who pled guilty for striking an elderly man who was a nursing home resident, and for pushing the man, who tripped and fell.  In the trip and fall the man was reportedly injured through hitting his shoulder on a piece of read more...

Recently, I wrote a blog posting how residents at a Minnesota nursing home were subjected to abuse as the result of humiliating and degrading images of them that were published by nursing home staff on social media, apparently as some type of sick humor.  Fortunately, through a number of articles in the press, the Department read more...

The Braemoor Health Center is a Brockton, Massachusetts nursing home and one of eleven Massachusetts nursing homes owned by Synergy Health Centers of New Jersey.  Following surprise visits to the Braemoor nursing home on June 30 and July 1, 2016, regulators found conditions at the nursing home were so troubling that residents were in “immediate read more...

There have been many cases of neglect where the patient is unable to move or speak and the medical staff ignores the resident for long periods of time. The most common injury with these types of cases are bedsores. Neglect can also mean missing scheduled medications, which can prolong illness or even worsen a diagnosed read more...

Federal health regulators have announced plans to crack down on nursing home employees who take demeaning photographs and videos of residents and post them on social media. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, which oversees nursing homes, have directed state health departments to make sure that all nursing homes have policies prohibiting staff from read more...

It’s estimated that at least one-third of the homeless suffer from significant mental health problems.  As these people age, become seniors, and are less able to take care of themselves, a question arises as to how and where these people will be cared for. In past decades, those with significant mental illness were often institutionalized.  read more...

Learn how this office helps prevent the abuse and neglect of seniors The New York State Office of Children and Family Services, through its Bureau of Adult Services (BAS), is responsible for the oversight of Protective Services for Adults (PSA) and other adult services provided through the local departments of social services, and local operations read more...

One common fear of living in a nursing home is the fear of being over-drugged by staff into such a state that we are no longer ourselves.  This situation is sometimes referred to as being “chemically restrained” – a resident is being given drugs so that they can be easier to handle. In the past, read more...

In a recent blog posting, I noted the dangers posed against some nursing home residents not by nursing home staff, but by other residents.  Residents who have known psychiatric conditions who tend to act violently pose a special threat against other residents.  Tragically, a recent event in Florida illustrates this threat. In June, the Jacksonville, read more...