Elder & Nursing Abuse Attorneys of Arizona

A Minnesota nursing home advocate was admitted to a nursing home for a week of rehabilitation after surgery on her right arm. Her experience was so bad that she checked herself out of the facility 25 hours later.

Although staying at “one of the best [nursing homes] in the state,” Deb Holtz, Minnesota’s Ombudsman for Long-Term Care, felt she was treated as a checkmark on someone’s to-do list. She was afforded no dignity.

You, as a nursing home resident, have rights. Unfortunately, many residents and their caregivers are unaware of what their rights are. More

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

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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