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.

Neglect 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

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Nursing Home Neglect

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