Nursing Home Neglect

Are you one of the many Alabama residents who has an elderly relative living in a nursing home or other care facility? If so, you understand the worries that you have for your loved one. In addition to making sure your relative's health needs are met, you also need to...

Many Alabama residents need to find nursing home care for a relative or already have loved ones living in care facilities. These people understand some of the challenges associated with finding a place for their family members that provides quality care and safe...

Do you have a parent, grandparent or other relative who lives in a care facility or has in-home caregivers? If so, you will understandably be concerned about the quality of care that he or she is receiving. With reports of elder abuse and neglect all too common, it is...

Alabama residents with elderly family members have good reason to be concerned about their care and safety. Elder abuse and neglect is a serious problem that can happen in people's homes as well as in care facilities. People deserve to be safe from these problems and...

In the last several decades, more and more people in Alabama have been faced with the challenge of how to properly take care of their aging relatives. Whether parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles or someone else, you want to give these loved ones the care and...

Like their counterparts around the nation, many Alabama residents struggle to find ways to provide safety and care for their elderly relatives. This can be a burden on families in any situation but can be made even harder when the elderly relatives do not live near...

Law enforcement agents from Georgia and Alabama met earlier this month to talk about the epidemic of elder abuse in their communities. The growing number of abuse cases may cause you to wonder what the signs of senior abuse are and how perpetrators get away with...

A nonprofit research group called the ECRI Institute collected the data from 181 health-care facilities. ECRI categorized the identification errors by type. Over one-third of the errors involved x-rays or other diagnostic tests; just less than one-quarter involved...

The federal government recently entered the fight against nursing home neglect and abuse. Specifically, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, an agency of the Health and Human Services Department, issued a rule against arbitrating these claims. Any nursing...

There’s a new type of elder abuse in town: social media abuse. Unfortunately, it may also not be against the law.In a recent example, a certified nursing assistant posted an unflattering photo online of a nursing home resident, depicting him in his underwear, his...