Elder & Nursing Abuse Attorneys of Arizona

1. Visit your loved one at their nursing home often. Besides giving you and your loved one a chance to interact and connect in-person, visiting their nursing home allows you to get to know the staff and the other residents whom they interact with on a daily basis. Since the majority of nursing home abuse and neglect is committed by someone familiar to the victim, regular visits with your loved one may enable you to spot nursing home neglect or abuse before it becomes deadly.

2. Remain calm and professional anytime you are working with a nursing home staff. Establishing calm and even friendly relationships with the nursing home staff at your loved one’s long-term care facility allows you to better monitor their care. It also means that the nursing home staff is more likely to respect and respond to any questions or concerns that you may have about your loved ones long-term care. More

Each year, it is estimated that 1 out of 3 adults ages 65 and older falls. Falls are the leading cause of injuries that result in death. In nursing home residents, falls are the leading cause of injury.

Even when the fall does not result in injury, most elderly people who fall develop an acute fear of falling again.

Elderly nursing home residents are at a high risk for fall-related injury because with their aging comes numerous physical changes, including: 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