Elder & Nursing Abuse Attorneys of Arizona

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

When 81-year-old William Leo McDougall was charged with one felony count of murder after beating his 94-year-old roommate over the head with a metal clothing rod, the case helped to expose a growing epidemic of resident-on-resident violence in nursing homes.

Imagine being attacked in your own home and never knowing when it will happen again. One of the most emotionally disturbing aspects about resident-on-resident violence is its unpredictability.
Yet there is a shocking lack of official reporting or legal action taken against violent residents who attack other residents. More

In a move to help families looking for nursing homes, the federal government has updated Medicare’s “Nursing Home Compare” website.

The “new” website revises the old one. Twenty-one new criteria, which help measure the quality of care at nursing homes across the country, are added. The new website allows the government to assess resident experiences in both long-term and short-term care facilities. More