Many older adults in New Mexico require extra care and might have to get it in nursing homes. Family caregivers must be aware of certain common complaints by their elderly loved ones. Being ignored One of the most common complaints from nursing home residents is that...
The Experience And Creativity
To Do Justice To Your Serious
Injury Case
Nursing Home Negligence
What are the symptoms and causes of nursing home neglect?
Bedsores may happen after nursing home neglect. A warning sign of a bedsore is an unusual change in skin texture or color. Other warning signs include pus-like draining, swelling, tenderness and the area feels cooler or warmer. The neglect may lead to a deeper injury...
How to tell if a senior has viral pneumonia
Placing a loved one in a New Mexico nursing home can be cause for anxiety. You want to make sure that your senior relative is well taken care of and that the facility you place them at has the highest possible standards of care. You will always be looking out to make...
Isolation is a form of nursing home negligence
There are growing concerns about the isolation of elderly residents in long-term care homes in New Mexico. Extended isolation is a problem that is the result of nursing home negligence. Many people are worried that it is ruining the older residents' health and leading...
Are bedsores a sign of negligence in New Mexico?
When you arrange for your loved one to stay in a nursing home in New Mexico, you expect them to receive the best care, as promised. However, the staff members at nursing homes sometimes neglect their legal duty to provide the basic care that the elderly require,...
What are the signs of nursing home neglect?
You expect your loved one to be safe in their New Mexico nursing home. Sadly, many older adults who are in nursing homes end up in worse condition than when they entered the facility. Sometimes, that is due to nursing home abuse or neglect. It’s important to know how...
Nursing home neglect caused by staff shortages
Residents of nursing homes in New Mexico require consistent care by registered nurses, nursing aides, and other nursing home staff. When nursing homes are short on these direct care and administrative workers, elderly and disabled residents suffer from neglect. How...
Understanding the dangers of nursing home neglect
There are times when someone you love needs more care than you can provide. Nursing homes exist to offer a safe place for people when they can no longer live alone. In New Mexico, people expect that their loved ones will be treated with respect and dignity....
What happens when surgical teams leave objects behind?
Some people in New Mexico might have heard of cases in which surgeons left instruments behind in people following an operation. This rare occurrence still happens thousands of times a year in the United States, most commonly with needles and sponges. There may be no...
New policy limits legal recourse for nursing home abuse victims
In a previous post, we discussed a new policy under the current administration that is limiting the consequences a nursing home faces for mistreatment of their residents. In this post, we discuss another recent policy change—which robs mistreated nursing home...