Sentences with phrase «elderly nursing home residents who»
For example, The New York Times detailed several cases last year in which families of elderly nursing home residents who were murdered by their roommates were initially blocked from suing the nursing homes for inadequate supervision (and other shortcomings) due to arbitration agreements.
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Nursing homes are unnecessarily administering powerful antipsychotic drugs to many elderly residents, including those with dementia who could suffer life - threatening side effects, according to a new government watchdog report.
CNN recently reported about a dark trend occurring in nursing homes and assisted living facilities across the country: sexual abuse of elderly residents, who are often helpless to defend themselves against unwanted advances.
Although federal law prohibits «chemical restraint» — using medications to strongly sedate patients with mental disorders or dementia who may engage in disruptive behaviors — recent reports show that several skilled nursing facilities in the United States overuse dangerous antipsychotic medications on their elderly residents, which is a form of nursing home abuse.
Unfortunately, elderly nursing home residents and hospital patients are typically the ones who develop these sores.
(a-1) A person commits an offense if the person is an owner, operator, or employee of a group home, nursing facility, assisted living facility, intermediate care facility for persons with mental retardation, or other institutional care facility and the person intentionally, knowingly, recklessly, or with criminal negligence by omission causes to a child, elderly individual, or disabled individual who is a resident of that group home or facility: