One of the hardest moments for any child is reaching the point in their life when they\’re left with no choice but to place their surviving parent(s) in a nursing home. This is done to ensure that they receive the best possible care, from a team of highly trained doctors, nurses and staff. In as much as every child wants to care for an elderly parent in the comfort of their own home until they pass away, that\’s simply not possible unless you can afford to pay for a private nurse to provide live-in care in their latter years.
The last thing any child expects to have happen is for their parent to suffer at the hands of the staff in the nursing home you picked so carefully for them, but unfortunately that\’s what can happen in a surprising number of cases. Over the last few years there seems to have been a dramatic increase in the number of nursing home abuse cases making the news, and although more stringent controls are always promised there seems to be new cases appearing every single week.
It\’s important to remember that the people in nursing homes are the fathers, mothers and grandparents of families who love them dearly, and who trusted that they would be treated with respect, dignity and the utmost of care. That\’s why it\’s so horrific to find out that your loved ones are starving, or dehydrated, have bed sores, pressure ulcers or have had unexplained falls causing breaks and fractures which can cause death in an elderly person. Each of these situations are entirely preventable – at least if the nursing home was doing its job properly.
A lot of the abuse in nursing homes is due to them hiring staff with no real qualifications in caring for the elderly, and then leaving those same staff members to care for elderly residents of the home unsupervised – this has always been a recipe for disaster. In fact only for advances in hidden cameras, CCTV technology and investigative journalism an unknown number of these cases of nursing home abuse would probably go completely unnoticed and unchallenged. Regardless of the reasoning behind why the abuse happened you\’ll obviously want to take legal action against the nursing home responsible for treating your family members so poorly.
The simple fact is that neglect and abuse of the elderly in any New Jersey nursing home is not only morally and ethically unacceptable, but it\’s entirely illegal too. In many ways you have a moral obligation to take legal action against nursing homes like this, simply because you could prevent another family from losing a dearly loved elderly relative through this kind of abuse.
Nursing homes are institutions which earn vast amounts of money from the fees they charge for providing professional care for your loved ones, so when they are negligent in their duty of care it\’s essential that they be held up to the bright light of the laws of the United States and exposed for who they really are.
If a member of your family has been the victim of abuse or neglect in any nursing home in the Garden State you can rest assured that our New Jersey nursing home abuse lawyers can successfully pursue a case for you.