Category: Elder Abuse

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Holidays Are Hard On Isolated Seniors Include Older Loved Ones And Neighbors In Your Celebrations Maintain An Active Role In Senior Lives Year-Round Happy Fourth of July 2023!  We at Evans Law Firm, Inc. hope you have a great Fourth and encourage you to include older loved ones, […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Another Facility Employee Notices Blood On Bed Victim Has No Memory Of Anything Police Use DNA Evidence Statistics show that 20,000 incidents of sexual abuse, assault and rape in nursing homes have been reported to the authorities over the last two decades, and the numbers are increasing year […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Wheelchair-Bound Patient Allegedly Abused Charges Of Cover Up Brought Against Director Abuse Reported By Victim’s Daughter After Visiting Her Mother In Home Stories of intentional abuse of nursing home residents are especially heartbreaking.  In one case reported earlier this year and discussed below, the daughter of an elderly […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Elderly ALS Victim Suffered From Caregiver Accused Of Trying To Strangle Victim Allegedly Flees With $4000 In Stolen Cash Greedy caregivers, intent only on stealing a senior or dependent person’s money or possessions, care little about their health and may abuse or neglect them as part of the […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER 78-Year-Old Dies After Being Pushed Resident Of Memory Care Facility Incident Caught On Surveillance Camera Sadly, seniors in assisted care facilities and nursing homes are at risk of abuse and neglect by the very persons paid to care for them.  Stories of intentional abuse of seniors in these […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Employee Notices Blood On Bed Victim Has No Memory Of Anything Police Use DNA Evidence Statistics show that 20,000 incidents of sexual abuse, assault and rape in nursing homes have been reported to the authorities over the last two decades, and the numbers are increasing year by year. […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER False Claims For Medicaid Payments Alleged Accused Of Inadequate Staffing And No Hot Water Licensing Irregularities Healthcare fraud, including fraud against Medicare and Medicaid, is the biggest kind of fraud perpetrated against the government.  When the targeted patients are elders, such fraud cases may also constitute elder abuse […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Increasing Neglect Of Hospice Patient Fatal Infections And Untreated Injuries Recourse For Families Hospice care should be compassionate, end of life care for those with only a short time left to live.  While many hospice programs in the U.S. are non-profit organizations, more and more hospice programs are […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Continued Physical Abuse Alleged Victim’s Checkbook Allegedly Stolen Allegations Of Physical Violence Against Victim Evans Law Firm, Inc. represent victims of physical and financial elder and dependent adult abuse.  In certain cases, the elder or dependent adult victim is harmed by different kinds of abuse at the same […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Licensed Practical Nurse Arrested Victim Found In “Unspeakable Conditions” Dies After Weeks In Hospital Neglect of seniors in nursing homes or even in their own homes at the hands of in-home caregivers can be fatal.  Bed sores and sepsis may rapidly manifest in a neglected patient especially if […]