In many ways nursing home abuse and nursing home neglect are the same. After all, injury is injury. Legally, however, there is a big difference that could matter significantly to your family. Neglect is an unintentional tort. Abuse is an intentional tort. As a result,...
Legal Responsibility in Nursing Home Abuse Claims
A combination of an aging population and chronic understaffing is largely responsible for the abuse which takes place in Kentucky nursing homes. About a third of patients report seeing at least one act of physical abuse. Researchers believe this number is vastly...
Legal Options Following a Nursing Home Fall
Fall injuries are the leading cause of nursing home admissions. Instead of getting better at a long-term care facility, many of these fall victims get worse. Almost two-thirds of nursing home residents fall every year. Repeat falls have especially severe physical and...
Top Five Kinds of Nursing Home Neglect Injuries
In the Bluegrass State, nursing home owners have a moral and legal responsibility to take care of their residents. Vulnerable older people need special protection from harm. Furthermore, according to Kentucky law, nursing home residents are invitees. They have...
Nursing Home Abuse: A Closer Look
Many kinds of abuse take place at area nursing homes. Yet these different kinds of abuse usually have a common cause. Money, and specifically understaffing, is often the root of these issues. As many as 90 percent of Fayette County long-term care facilities are...
The Seven Most Common Physical Slip and Fall Injuries Among the Elderly
Falls are the leading cause of unintentional death and also the leading cause of serious injury among people over 70. These injuries cost almost $70 billion a year. Medicare and/or Medicaid absorbs most of these expenses. Some of the most common physical fall injuries...
Obtaining Compensation in a Nursing Home Bedsore Claim
The roots of today’s pressure ulcer claims usually go back to 2015. In that year, Medicaid allowed individual states, including Kentucky, to switch to a Fee for Service model. This program reimburses providers flat rates for certain kinds of services. As a result,...
Common Issues in Nursing Home Fall Claims
The fatal fall rate for adults over 65 has doubled in the last decade. Largely because of pre-existing conditions, many older adults are unable to avoid falls, and their injuries are much more serious. In terms of the risk of a fall, many older people have gait...
Bedsore Injuries: A Closer Look
Typically, pressure ulcers are a serious problem at understaffed nursing homes. And as many as 90 percent of the long-term care centers in Kentucky are dangerously understaffed. Understaffed facilities often operate with skeleton crews, especially during nights,...
Recognizing Some Common Kinds of Nursing Home Abuse
The over-65 population is expanding rapidly in Kentucky. The nursing home population is expanding as well. Unfortunately, for malefactors who abuse older adults, that means more potential targets. And, mostly due to chronic understaffing, many facilities do not ask...
