http://www.avvo.com/legal-answers-search/nursing-home-abuse-neglect.html Avvo.com - Nursing Home Abuse Questions http://www.avvo.com/legal-answers/my-son-is-17-years-old-and-has-been-shoplifting--u-166999.html My son refuses to obey his parents, steals alcohol and other things, is using pot and perhaps other drugs. He has assaulted his father physically. What are our options in this case? He gets dropped off at school but leaves. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 17:16:09 PST http://www.avvo.com/legal-answers/can-a-nursing-home-rehability-facility-discharge-a-161608.html The patient is a avid smoker and has always used the court yard to smoke. Then for some reason they had to leave the court yard and entered the building with the cigarette lit. Now the facility said, "that was a fire hazard and wish to release the patient due to breaking their rules." What can I do? Thu, 12 Nov 2009 05:11:04 PST http://www.avvo.com/legal-answers/do-i-have-a-case-to-sue-this-nursing-home-157734.html My dad in SNF. Flu shot consent form incorrectly marked refuse-not true. Left exposed just in diaper and soaking wet shirt from his drool. Notice drooling and choking more, when checked with staff found out Scopolamine patch not reorder for 2 days,dad is high risk for aspiration due to lack of swallowing skill. Peg tube site caked with nasty discharge. found urinal that is full of old urine in the closet out of my dad's reach inside the closet. He developed periarea excoriation due to lack of diaper change and diaper while in bed. Wed, 04 Nov 2009 20:15:27 PST http://www.avvo.com/legal-answers/refuse-settlement-155563.html My father was in a nursing home and so abused and neglected, bed sores, numurous fractures from falls, nurses sleeping on the job, this is only a partial list of abuse that occured. The settlement, lets say was 200,000. My lawyer gets 110,000 and I get 25,000 because there are 3 other siblings. My siblings never saw my father once, during his stay at this home. The emotional pain and scars that I live with everyday cannot even be put in words. My question is , I want to tell my lawyer to refuse the settlement, no trial, forget this even happened. For 4 strangers (lawyer and 3 siblings) to prosper from my father's abuse, while I went everyday to that home, is not justice. Now I know he could probably file suit against me, but I have nothing. My main concern is, could I go to jail? Sun, 01 Nov 2009 11:02:04 PST http://www.avvo.com/legal-answers/isn-t-this-nursing-home-neglect---please-inform-me-152373.html My dad was in a nursing home from October, 2008-April, 2009. He fell six times, 11-28-2008, 12-14-2008 broken arm, 1-8-2009, 1-22-2009 found on the floor by his bed, 2-7-2009 a aid left him unattended in the wheel chair, & April 16, 2009 broken hip. On May 29, 2009 @ VA Hospital he died, after that last fall he just went down completely. I was tolded today after four months by a lawyer that since I did not remove him from the Nursing Home there is nothing that can be done. Can you let me know what you think? Mon, 26 Oct 2009 15:00:09 PDT http://www.avvo.com/legal-answers/wife-s-brother-power-of-attorney-of-sick-mom-and-r-150943.html My wife's brother is power of attorney of their mother. Right now she stays with another sister. Her sister can not take care of her like she needs, but brother refuses to do anything because he does not want to sell proprty of mothers to help take care of medical issue. He also has been getting her mothers social security check and nobody knows what he uses the money on since other sister has been taking care of mother for almost a year now. Can he keep them from putting her in a nursing home so she can get the help she needs? Fri, 23 Oct 2009 13:58:39 PDT http://www.avvo.com/legal-answers/what-steps-do-i-need-to-take-to-put-my-mother-in-a-135247.html My sisters and I are not close to my mother for various reasons. She is no longer able to care for herself and has let my alcoholic cousin move in with her to "take care of her". They live in filth and no one ever cleans the house. She is in and out of the hospital and we believe she would be safer in a nursing home. What should we do? Wed, 23 Sep 2009 02:20:33 PDT http://www.avvo.com/legal-answers/s-s-d-i--120937.html Hi, I have been disabled (Bipolar Disorder) for ten years and receive S.S.D.I. (not S.S.I.). O have sued my mother's nursing home for neglect, harm and abuse. If I were to win the case, would the monetary award affect my S.S.D.I. pension? If it does, then why? When people retire, no matter their wealth they still receive Social Security benefits, don't they? After all, it is my money which they are sending back to me. Tue, 25 Aug 2009 05:32:08 PDT http://www.avvo.com/legal-answers/is-it-neglect-if-an-elderly-person-developes-a-bed-104127.html My mom-in-law has a very nasty bedsore due to being left in the wrong position too long. Seems every week we are told of a new treatment that will heal it quickly but that is just not happening.She is 88 and has her mind still and now must stay in the bed except for meals. Now they have a pump suctioning the wound and today she vomited due to the strong antibiotic. What should we do? Thu, 23 Jul 2009 12:13:37 PDT http://www.avvo.com/legal-answers/the-nursing-home-made-serious-medication-errors--w-102764.html coumadin overdose. Wed, 22 Jul 2009 08:14:25 PDT