Travelling Nurse Kills Nursing Home Resident During California Nursing Home Strike

Dec 13

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During the recent California nursing strike, a resident died due, allegedly, to inadequate care by a “traveling nurse.”

Known as a traveling nurses or replacement nurses, hospitals, nursing homes, long-term care facilities, and other medical facilities often contract with nursing agencies bring in short or long-term temporary nursing staff. Due to the nursing shortage, nurses are always in short supply. More

Malnutrition and Dehydration in Nursing Homes Now Rivals the Third World

Aug 25

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It is a horrifying fact that more than 31 percent of nursing home residents suffer from malnutrition and dehydration, according to a 2000 study by the National Citizens Coalition for Nursing Home Reform.

This means that the possibility of your loved one suffering from malnutrition and dehydration while in a nursing home rivals that of people struggling to survive in the Third World. More

Hidden Between the Sheets: When Elder Abuse is Sexual

Aug 15

Stephen M. GaricaAttorney, Caregiver, Criminalizes, Elder Abuse, Financial Exploitation, Financial Fraud, Fraud, Hidden Abuse, Hidden Crime, HIPPA, Long-Term Care, Medical Records, Neglect, Nursing Home Abuse Comments Off

It’s difficult to say that one type of elder abuse is more abhorrent than another. Yet when elder abuse takes the form of sexual abuse, it somehow seems worse than almost any other form of abuse perpetuated against an elderly person or a dependent adult.

Elder abuse attorney Stephen M. Garcia represented a woman over 100 years old who was repetitively raped by the manager of a long-term care facility in Riverside, Calif.

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