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The Phoenix nursing home abuse lawyers at Zanes Law know that the moment you decide to place your aging parents in a nursing home, you decide to entrust their care to someone who is professionally trained to help them. Your parents cannot take care of themselves anymore. They now struggle with the day-to-day activities they once handled on their own and need more help than you can provide. Whether they require minor nursing home assistance or full-fledged medical care, you certainly want to know they’re safe and well-treated in whatever nursing home they choose.

Unfortunately, nursing home abuse (also referred to as elder abuse) is all too common. If nursing home abuse occurs, a dedicated personal injury attorney can help you fight your case and protect your aging loved ones.

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What Is Nursing Home Abuse?

MMDAF awards_logo1Nursing home or elder abuse is the maltreatment of an elderly patient living in a nursing home. The staff members might neglect, mistreat, or abuse your loved one in a variety of ways. While many facilities run smoothly and operate without any issue, there are always those that tolerate abuse or neglect. It could be that one person on staff is abusing your loved one specifically, or the entire facility could be mistreating patients. Common forms of nursing home abuse include:

  • Physical abuse
  • Sexual abuse
  • Emotional abuse
  • Financial abuse
  • Neglect

Physical abuse occurs when the nursing home staff physically harms your loved one. Sexual abuse is self-explanatory. Emotional abuse can cause your loved one to become depressed, to withdraw, or to suffer from nervousness.

Financial abuse is not a subject many people consider when discussing nursing home abuse, but it does occur. Financial abuse happens when caretakers use their patients’ money for their own gain. They might charge them for items the patients are not using, overcharge patients, or use the patients’ debit or credit cards for personal purchases.

Neglect is one of the most common forms of nursing home abuse. It occurs when nursing home staff doesn’t provide adequate care for your loved one. Neglect can include lack of bathing, lack of bedpan changes, dirty clothes and bedding, lack of food or water, and even telling visitors that they are not allowed to see patients. Regardless of the type of abuse or neglect the nursing home resident has suffered, an experienced lawyer could inform their family of their legal options.

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How Do I Know If Abuse or Neglect Is Occurring?

AzTLA awards_logo4It’s not always easy to tell if nursing home abuse is occurring, but there are warning signs. One of the most common signs is that you are not able to visit without making an appointment well in advance. You should be able to drop in any time you’d like to see your loved one. Another sign is sudden changes in your family member’s attitude or mood. Sudden weight loss or gain, dehydration, bed sores, and nervousness are other signs of nursing home abuse or neglect. If you suspect there is anything going on in your family member’s assisted living facility that you don’t approve of or that you know is illegal, you need to call Zanes Law and speak with our Phoenix attorneys immediately.

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Proving Liability in an Assisted Living Facility Case in Phoenix

ASLA awards_logo3Proving your loved one has been abused in a nursing home requires the help of one of the outstanding nursing home abuse attorneys at Zanes Law. Proving neglect is a long process that requires ample evidence. The attorney you work with must be able to prove that the facility employees owed your patient a duty of care. He or she must then show that employees breached that duty and caused injury as a direct result of that breach.

An attorney knows where to look, how to begin an investigation, and how to collect the necessary evidence to win a lawsuit against a nursing home. The damages you seek might be able to compensate you for medical care expenses, money you lost due to financial abuse, and your loved one’s pain and suffering. When you place your loved one in the care of a nursing home facility, you expect that he or she will receive the kind of medical care you are not equipped to provide at home. You do not expect the facility to harm your family member.

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Doug Zanes, Phoenix Nursing Home Abuse Lawyer

Nursing home abuse is not a joke, and you should not hesitate to call an attorney if your loved one has experienced it. If you are mistaken about potential abuse, it’s far better to realize your mistake than to be right and ignore the signs. An attorney who regularly handles elder abuse cases in Phoenix can help you create a case and get justice for your loved one. No one should ever have to live with any kind of abuse.

If your loved one has died as a result of nursing home abuse, you have a wrongful death case on your hands. Call the Phoenix nursing home abuse lawyers at Zanes Law now. Evidence has a way of going missing when you wait, and people’s memories fade. Acting quickly is the best way to prove your case and receive the damages you and your loved one deserve.

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