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Nursing Home Neglect
Neglect is the failure to fulfill nursing home provisions and obligations to the patient. Neglect may also include failure of a person who has fiduciary responsibilities to provide care for an elder (e.g., pay for necessary home care services) or the failure on the part of an in-home service provider to provide the necessary care.
Nursing home neglect in Pennsylvania typically means the refusal or failure to provide a nursing home patient with the basics of necessities such as food, water, clothing, shelter, personal hygiene, medicine, comfort, personal safety, and other essentials included in an agreed-upon responsibility to the patient.
Symptoms of nursing home neglect include:
- dehydration and malnutrition
- untreated bed sores
- poor personal hygiene
- unattended or untreated health problems
- hazardous or unsafe living condition/arrangements
- unsanitary and unclean living conditions (dirt, fleas, lice on person, soiled bedding, fecal/urine smell, inadequate clothing)
- the patient reports of being mistreated
