Nursing Home Abuse Lawyer California Blog

The rate of questionable transfers of end-stage dementia patients from nursing homes to hospitals has raised flags for public health researchers at Brown University.

After analyzing Medicare records of approximately 475,000 patients, the team, led by Dr. Joan Teno, M.D., found that nearly 20 percent of dementia patients were transferred from their nursing homes into hospitals for questionable reasons. More

Each year, it is estimated that 1 out of 3 adults ages 65 and older falls. Falls are the leading cause of injuries that result in death. In nursing home residents, falls are the leading cause of injury.

Even when the fall does not result in injury, most elderly people who fall develop an acute fear of falling again.

Elderly nursing home residents are at a high risk for fall-related injury because with their aging comes numerous physical changes, including: More

Five nursing home workers who participated in a November 2009 prank involving elderly dementia patients in a Ukiah, Calif., nursing home have been sentenced.

Accused of enacting a prank where they coated 7 elderly dementia patients from head to foot in a slippery ointment so they would be slippery when the staff for the next shift arrived, all 5 had their nursing assistant licenses revoked and are ineligible to work in nursing homes again. More

In 2009 the federal government found that nearly 1/3 of all nursing homes in the United States had received citations for abusing and neglecting their residents.

According to the official report, the House Government Reform Committee conducted a search of all abuse violations recorded at nursing homes from 1999 to 2001.

It found that a total of 9,000 incidents of nursing home abuse were reported. More than 5,200 nursing homes receiving citations for abusing or neglecting their residents during that time. The government admits that its findings severely underestimate the incidence of abuse in nursing homes. More