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

Newly proposed legislation could soon allow nurses in nursing homes to administer controlled substance painkillers to residents when acting on a physician’s verbal orders.

The legislation comes despite increasing numbers of nursing home residents who have been killed because of poorly administered, or over-administered, painkillers. More

A new study has found that staff in nursing homes can dramatically reduce the risk of a deadly flu outbreak in the facility by getting flu shots.

Confirming previous studies and guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the University of Oklahoma study found that when between 51 and 75 percent of direct caregivers are vaccinated against the flu, the odds of a flu outbreak in that facility decreased by a dramatic 87 percent. More