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With over 1.5 million seniors and elderly adults now living in nursing homes in the United States, negligence and abuse has become a wide-spread problem with medical and nursing providers. Even though there are many nursing homes that provide good, adequate care, there are far too many that are subjecting seniors to needless suffering, death, and essentially nursing abuse.
Most seniors in nursing homes are totally dependent on the staff at the nursing home for their basic needs, including food, medicine, water, toileting, grooming, and virtually all essential activities of daily living. Unfortunately, there are seniors in nursing homes that have been starved, dehydrated, over or under medicated, or have suffered from painful bedsores. The opportunities for medical and nursing abuse are overwhelming. Nursing homes are running businesses and often under staff their facilities with very little feedback or watchdog organizational oversight.
Abuse and neglect in nursing homes can take any of the following forms:
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Assault
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Battery
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Sexual battery
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Sexual assault
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Rape
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Improper physical constraint or deprivation of food, water, or medicine
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Improper use of medication
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