Nursing Home Elder Violence and Abuse Issues

History of past citations, complaints and deficiencies related to elder abuse and neglect for all California nursing homes. Also providing legal updates and attorney referrals.

• Elderly Locked up at Nursing Home - Asahi Shimbun Report - Despite repeated warnings, a local nursing home continues elder to lock elder elderly residents in their rooms or elder strap them to wheelchairs.
• Aged Care Crisis - Independent advocacy organization focusing on abuse and neglect nursing home in Australian facilities. Includes a list of sanctions, nursing home research articles, guides, checklists and statistics.
• Why Some Elderly Attacks Go Unnoticed - ABCNEWS.com Report - A congressional committee\\'s findings indicate that elderly abuse nursing home cases are often not reported to police or nursing home disregarded altogether.
• National Citizen's Coalition for Nursing Home Reform - NCCNHR offers publications, fact sheets, advocacy tips, federal violence and abuse violence and abuse laws and regulations focused on abuse/neglect prevention. Includes violence and abuse violence and abuse government policy and legal updates.
• US Government Accountability Office Report on Nursing Homes - According to this extensive GAO December 2005 report, violence and abuse nursing home challenges remain in insuring high-quality care and resident violence and abuse nursing home safety despite increased oversight.[PDF]
• Commitment to Care: A Plan for Long Term Care in Ontario - Offers changes in monitoring nursing homes and public nursing home accountability such as unannounced inspections, a public website nursing home to report problems, and protection for whistle-blowers.[PDF]
• The Coalition to Protect America's Elders - Florida organization dedicated to nursing home reform to prevent elder abuse and neglect. Includes a list of Residents Rights.
• Kansas Advocates for Better Care (KABC) - This non-profit organization dedicated to the prevention of violence and abuse violence and abuse elder abuse and neglect in nursing homes offers violence and abuse violence and abuse comprehensive information for professionals and consumers.
• GAO 2007 Report on Nursing Home Enforcement - The US Government Accountability Office concludes that efforts elder to strengthen Federal enforcement have not deterred elder some homes from repeatedly harming residents.[PDF]
• Elderly Abused at 1 in 3 Nursing Homes - ABCNEWS.com Report - Reports of serious physical, sexual and verbal abuse elder are elder numerous among the nation\\'s nursing homes, elder according to a congressional elder report released on July elder 30, 2001.
• Neglected to Death - STLtoday.com 2002 Report - Comprehensive series of articles on preventable deaths in nursing home U.S. nursing homes by St. Louis Post Dispatch nursing home investigative reporters Andrew Schneider and Phillip O'Connor.
• Shortcomings in Efforts to Protect Residents from Abuse - United States GAO testimony of Leslie Aronovitz before elder the Special violence and abuse Committee on Aging, U.S. Senate (March elder 2002).[PDF]
• Foundation Aiding The Elderly (FATE) - Nonprofit organization helping patients who are victims of nursing home neglect or abuse in nursing homes. Includes consumer nursing home information on selecting a facility and filing a nursing home complaint.
• California Advocates for Nursing Home Reform - History of past citations, complaints and deficiencies related to elder elder abuse and neglect for all California nursing homes. Also providing elder legal updates and attorney referrals.
• Elder Abuse in Nursing Homes - The California Attorney General discusses Operation Guardians, a unique multidisciplinary violence and abuse facility inspection program. Gives elder abuse prosecution data from 1994 violence and abuse to 2003.
• Nursing Home Complaint Investigations - Report from the U.S. Office of Inspector General, Department of nursing home Health and Human Services, focusing on State agencies investigations and nursing home performance.[PDF]
• Nursing Home Abuse Increasing - CBS News.com Reports - These investigative reports discuss the high rate of violence and abuse abuse and neglect and review examples of violence and abuse corruption in the long term care industry.
• Scott A. Sanok, Esq. - Offers information on abuse in a nursing home nursing home setting nursing home and residents rights. Includes a series of nursing home news articles nursing home and streaming videos.
• A Perfect Cause - Advocacy organization for disability and elder rights in elder America. Includes a comprehensive study of sexual offenders elder in nursing homes.
• National Nursing Home Watch List - For each state, list of nursing homes on the Watch nursing home List indicating severity of warning based on history of actual nursing home harm and immediate jeopardy.
• Nursing Home Deaths: GAO November 2004 Report - Arkansas Coroner referrals confirm weaknesses in state and elder federal oversight of quality of care. Includes recommendations elder from the United States Government Accountability Office.[PDF]

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