Nursing Home Abuse Guide

In this guide:

• Signs of abuse
• Meeting with a lawyer
• Recoverable damages
• Preventing abuse

Nursing home residents depend on the nursing home staff to assist with their daily needs, as well as treat them for physical or medical conditions. Because residents are vulnerable, abuse can take many forms. Staff can give residents too many drugs or the wrong ones, deprive them of heat, water or food, or simply pay insufficient attention to their needs.

If you have a family member who is a nursing home resident and their condition is cause for concern, use this guide to help determine, and learn what to do, if they are a victim of nursing home abuse.