Representing the Powerless against the Powerful
When nursing home, assisted living, or residential care staff members physically abuse or sexually abuse the patients in their care, there is no excuse. A patient’s adult child may come to our law firm and say, “I thought they loved my mother.” When the truth comes out, the patient may have died as a result of the abuse.
Nursing Home Physical Abuse
Nursing Home Injury
What should you do when a loved one is abused by caretakers? Talk to a nursing home physical abuse lawyer at the Brandi Law Firm. We have a commitment to help the powerless, and vulnerable nursing home patients are certainly powerless when faced with angry, cruel, poorly paid or uncaring staff members.
It could be that the resident patient was abusive to the staff, but that is no excuse for the staff member to be abusive to a vulnerable person. There may be issues of underpaid staff members, poor education, poor training, or inadequate staffing. Again, those are not excuses for abuse.
Physical abuse may be hidden by clothing and is often on the body’s trunk. Even broken bones on a patient with limited mobility may not be easily noticed, and the patient may not be able to communicate the source of the pain.
Because the most vulnerable people have difficulty in explaining or understanding what happened, sexual abuse may go unnoticed until the patient is diagnosed with an STD (sexually transmitted disease), a urinary tract infection, or unusual bleeding.
If you suspect that a loved one has been physically or sexually abused, contact an elder abuse lawyer at the Brandi Law Firm. Even if your loved one has died, we can still hold the nursing home accountable and help restore dignity to your loved one’s memory.
Our nursing home neglect law firm represents elderly people and their families in nursing home neglect and financial abuse cases throughout California, Nevada and Arizona. Our nursing home neglect attorneys represent the powerless against the powerful.
