nursing home negligence

NURSING HOME NEGLIGENCE

The American population is aging. The older generation is entering their golden years at the fastest rate in the country’s history. Accordingly, hundreds of thousands of senior citizens who are unable to live independently are entrusting their health, safety, and general well being to the professional staffs of thousands of nursing homes whose sole reason for existence is to take care of this population. Sadly, thousands of innocent people per year are seriously injured by the very people who are charged with keeping their elderly residents safe and injury-free.

Because of the unprecedented increase in the nursing home population over the past two decades, the government has instituted a huge body of laws and regulations governing the proper care and treatment of nursing home residents, who cannot care for themselves. These laws are often ignored by the very professionals to whom they apply—nursing home personnel. As a result, the very people whom the laws are designed to protect are seriously injured, sometimes over and over. Because of these helpless patients’ advanced age and compromised health, sometimes the injury is fatal.

Oftentimes, the spouses and children of nursing home residents suffer as much as their injured loved one when the relatives realize that something has gone terribly wrong and they cannot get any answers from the nursing home administration and staff. Bed sores, unexplained falls, wandering episodes, and dehydration are wrongly attributed to “old age.” In many cases, however, the blame for these injuries lies squarely with the nursing home staff.

Handling a nursing home negligence case effectively requires a working knowledge of the culture and routine inside nursing homes. Here at LENNON LAW OFFICES, we have that knowledge, and can apply it to those deserving cases that demand investigation and legal action. If you or someone you care about has suffered an injury while in the care of a nursing home, we want to hear about it.