How You Can Tell Nursing Home Neglect Is Happening
People who are elderly or need full-time care are sometimes unable to communicate clearly about what is happening to them in the nursing home where they live.
And fragile health can leave them highly vulnerable to injury from neglect.
Pay close attention to any signs that your loved one is being poorly treated. Those include:
- Bed sores
- Unexplained bruises
- Poor hygiene
- Sudden social withdrawal
- Incidents of wandering off
- Apparent problems with nutrition
- Indicators of dehydration
Also look around the facility and your loved one’s surroundings.
If it’s cluttered or dirty, if there are problems with building maintenance and hazards around the property, that could tell you that the care center isn’t running well, which could easily lead to your family member being neglected.
Talk to the West Virginia nursing home neglect lawyers at Shaffer & Shaffer to see what you can do about this alarming situation.
And if the worst has happened—your loved one has died, and the circumstances don’t seem natural—you may have a wrongful death claim against the nursing home.
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How Does Nursing Home Abuse Happen?
It’s a sad fact that resources are often lacking for elderly people, people with disabilities, and others who are unable to take care of themselves independently.
This can create unsafe nursing home conditions.
Nursing home abuse and neglect happens because of problems like these:
- The nursing home is short on staff.
- Management fails to hire qualified, competent care providers.
- Training for the staff is poor.
- Ongoing supervision of the staff is poor.
- The facility fails to use proper measures to prevent the spread of infections.
- The center lacks an organized system for keeping track of prescription medications.
Sometimes it can be hard to know what’s going on behind the doors of your loved one’s nursing home.
If you’ve noticed something wrong, one of the best ways you can find out more and get relief for this situation is to have a West Virginia nursing home abuse attorney ask the right questions and investigate your case.
Shaffer & Shaffer is devoted to West Virginia families. We can fight to make sure your family’s concerns are addressed, and your needs are met.
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