Category: Nursing Home Abuse

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER  Holding Facility Owners Responsible Torture And Murder Of Elderly Resident Civil Lawsuits Against Those Responsible Patients in nursing homes and assisted care facilities are at risk of intentional abuse, neglect, negligence, or abandonment by aides, staff and owners in the very facilities where families expect their loved ones […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Congress Considering More Protections For Seniors Social Isolation And Financial Pressures Of COVID-19 More Federal Funding For Local Support Programs Needed The ravages of the COVID-19 pandemic on the elderly confined in nursing homes has brought new attention to the level of care in America’s nursing homes. Congressional […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Residents at Risk Cases of Sexual Assaults and Rape Increase Dementia Patients Particularly at Risk Dangerous conditions in nursing homes are coming to light more and more as investigations follow the terrible toll of the coronavirus in elder care facilities throughout the State. In one case, investigations led […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Nursing Home Residents at Risk Neglect and Lack of Supervision Pressure Wounds/Bedsores Can Be Deadly Neglect and abandonment of nursing home residents can be fatal. Pressure wounds/bedsores and infections can kill. Understaffing and lack of training and supervision are real problems within care facilities and the pandemic has […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Nursing Home Residents at Risk Negligence, Neglect, and Intentional Abuse Dementia Patients Particularly at Risk Nursing home residents are at risk of harm from staff negligence, neglect, abandonment and even intentional abuse such as rape, sexual assault, battery, intentional overmedication, and other forms of abuse. Dementia patients are […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Elderly Nursing Home Residents at Risk  Cases of Sexual Assaults and Rape Increase Dementia Patients Particularly at Risk More and more incidents of sexual misconduct in nursing homes appear in the news these days including a recent arrest of a nursing aide for inappropriately touching a elderly resident.*  […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Abandonment of Seniors Can Be Fatal 2019 California Law Adds Remedy For Abandoned Older Persons Last year the California Legislature added “abandonment” of the elderly to the list of wrongs against seniors that entitle injured seniors to enhanced remedies against those responsible. Calif. Welf. & Inst. Code § […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER The California Supreme Court Will Rule On Elder Abuse Damages Penalties For Nursing Home Abuses Of Patient’s Rights  The California Supreme Court is preparing to weigh in on the matter of damages awarded to the victims, or families of victims, of abuse and neglect by a nursing home. […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Battery, Sexual Assault, Rape, And Other Intentional Abuse Dementia Patients Especially at Risk Sadly, dementia patients in nursing homes and assisted care facilities are at risk of intentional physical abuse by aides and staff in the very facilities where families expect their afflicted loved ones to be safe […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Sexual Assault, Rape, And Other Intentional Abuse Dementia Patients Especially at Risk Tragically, incidents of sexual assault and rape of nursing home residents are more and more in the news. The Alameda County elder abuse attorneys at Evans Law Firm, Inc. believe that nursing homes, owners, administrators and […]