Nursing Home Negligence

The types of nursing home abuse and neglect vary. They include:

• Physical abuse.
• Sexual abuse.
• Emotional and psychological abuse.
• Financial exploitation.
• Neglect and self-neglect.
• Abandonment.

Studies show that most cases of abuse are never reported to authorities. Underreporting may occur for a variety of reasons, among them an older person’s fear of retaliation by an offender, reluctance to disclose an incident because of shame or embarrassment, dependency on an offender or their own physical or cognitive limitations. But abuse or neglect should be reported and exposed.