Ohio Nursing Home Abuse and Elder Care Neglect

The nursing home abuse and nursing home and elder care neglect lawyers at Elk & Elk are dedicated to handling cases involving neglect and abuse of the elderly in long term care facilities licensed as nursing homes and in assisted living facilities.

Our team of Nursing Home Abuse and Elder Care Neglect attorneys offers the medical resources and experience necessary to successfully litigate malpractice claims.The Medical Malpractice division of Elk & Elk covers the entire state of Ohio and our attorneys specialize in the areas of Nursing Home Abuse and Elder Care Neglect and medical malpractice. Physical, emotional, simple neglect and abuse of the elderly happens every day. In whatever form, nursing home abuse must be stopped and the first step is recognizing what can be considered abuse or neglect. Abuse or neglect of the elderly can be found in the form of bedsores, open wounds, cuts, bruises, dehydration, malnutrition, weight loss, burns, falls, bowel impactions, medication errors, poor personal hygiene, verbal or physical abuse, over-sedation, and in many other forms. Physical or mental abuse and neglect of our elderly parents is a silent crime.

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While state definitions may vary, in most states, definitions of elder abuse generally fall within these three categories.
Domestic elder abuse generally refers to any of several forms of maltreatment of an older person by someone who has a special relationship with the elder (a spouse, a sibling or a caregiver), that occur in the elder’s home, or in the home of a caregiver.
Institutional abuse, on the other hand, prefers to any of the above-mentioned forms of abuse that occur in residential facilities for older persons (e.g., nursing homes and care facilities).

Perpetrators of institutional abuse usually are persons who have a legal or contractual obligation to provide elder victims with care and protection (e.g., staff, professionals). Most of the elderly with disabilities are unlikely to complain about abuse, neglect or victimization under the fear that they will lose whatever support, even abusive, that they have, and that their complaints will trigger reprisals. Nursing home neglect has been found to be an all-too frequent occurrence with deadly results. When this form of nursing home abuse or neglect occurs, you have a right to be angry and to demand answers.

 

Call us at 1 800 ELK OHIO for a free evaluation by our in-house nursing home abuse attorneys, doctors and nurses. At Elk & Elk, we have the vast resources to hire the leading experts for you, and you pay nothing unless we have a successful outcome in your favor. Our nursing home abuse and neglect attorneys practice successfully in every court throughout Ohio.

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