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Protecting nursing home residents from assaults by other residents

The attorney general for the state of Illinois recently proposed strategies for protecting nursing home residents from assaults by other nursing home residents with criminal histories. The Attorney General was motivated by a series of newspaper articles describing assaults, rapes and murder by mentally ill criminals who also lived in the nursing homes. The Attorney [...]

Saving the life of a loved one who falls at a nursing home

In our Daytona Beach-based nursing home neglect practice we regularly see serious injuries from falls that have been all but ignored. This almost always makes things worse or at a minimum results in the patient suffering unnecessary pain.
The two types of serious injuries we most often see from falls are traumatic brain injury and fractured [...]

Nursing homes buy pretend insurance- they don’t protect you.

Our nursing home abuse clients are always surprised when we tell them about the kind of insurance nursing homes usually have.  We tell them nursing homes basically do not have insurance.  Our clients then respond by asking, “Doesn’t the Florida Legislature require insurance?”  The answer to that question is that the Legislature has failed to [...]

Don’t believe them about arbitration agreements. They are not for your benefit.

More and more in our personal injury practice, we are seeing arbitration agreements that have been signed by our clients at the request of businesses and nursing homes trying to avoid responsibility for their negligence.
The agreements provide that the resident gives up the right to file a lawsuit in court and ask for a jury [...]

Nursing homes have to be told to “play nice.” In other words, don’t abuse patients.

Your mother used to tell you to “play nice.”  What she meant was don’t hit your friends, don’t yell at them, don’t ignore them, don’t take things away from them, share and don’t call them names.  Your mom usually told you to “play nice” when you were violating one of these rules.  You were probably [...]

Do you want them to cut you open and put in a feeding tube?

If you are young, you are probably not thinking about feeding tubes.  If you are middle aged, you may be thinking about feeding tubes in relation to elderly parents but not yourself.  If you are elderly, time is running out to think about feeding tubes.
Of course no one likes to think about feeding tubes.  And, [...]

Government funding system contributes to nursing home abuse.

Nursing home care is expensive. Many people do not have long-term care insurance and cannot afford to pay It’s a private nursing home fees. The result is that government pays for a great deal of nursing home care through Medicare and Medicaid.
The problem is that because these programs taken together do not pay well they [...]

If it is an emergency, go to the emergency room, not an assisted living facility.

It certainly seems like common sense that if you have a medical emergency you should go to a hospital emergency room.  If you are so sick that you need intensive care you should be in the hospital.  Unfortunately some administrators at assisted living facilities do not seem to have this kind of common sense.
Assisted living [...]

Three things to do before you need a nursing home – good planning | Daytona Nursing Home Injury Lawyer

No one wants to go to a nursing home. Everyone in a nursing home is sick. We tend to put off discussions about poor health and taking care of documents we will need if we have to go to a nursing home. However, those discussions and documents are critically important and can make a very [...]

Three things nursing homes do to blame others

During our over 20 years of representing clients in nursing home abuse and malpractice litigation in Daytona Beach and Deltona we have noticed that the course of nursing home lawsuits is strikingly similar from one case to the next. Nursing homes often repeat the same mistakes such as failing to turn and reposition a patient [...]