Cases of elderly financial abuse are on the rise here in Texas. Last year, Texas Adult Protective Services reported 1,700 confirmed cases of financial abuse; 258 of them were from North Texas. In June of this year, 154 cases of elder financial abuse in North Texas were filed, up from 126 the year before. According to Texas Adult Protective Services, …
Antipsychotic Drug Use in Nursing Homes May Change if New Law is Passed
Nursing homes currently do not have to follow any standardized protocol to obtain informed consent before administering anti-psychotic drugs to elderly patients. According to a news report from McKnights.com, Congress is considering passing a new law, The Improving Dementia Care Treatment in Older Adults Act. If passed, the law will require nursing homes to help residents and their families understand …
Texas Family Has Video Proof of Nursing Home Abuse
A North Texas family was concerned about their mother, 83-year-old Mynez Carter, after they saw her unexplained bruises and how she tried to dodge away from anyone who tried to hug her. They installed a hidden camera in her room to see what was happening when they weren’t around. The family was shocked at the rough treatment shown in the video. One …
Nursing Home Abuse: A Growing Problem
Elder abuse is a nationally recognized problem. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, more than 500,000 older adults are abused or neglected in the United States every year. Sadly, it’s likely that many more occurrences of elder abuse that go unreported aren’t reflected in this statistic. The state of Texas has 1,376 nursing home facilities and 140,859 …
Dental Insurance Class Action Case
This past spring, our W.T. Johnson nursing home abuse lawyers settled a $900,000 dental insurance class action suit. The lawsuit was against two large insurance companies in Tulsa, O.K. The case stated that the defendants improperly marketed dental insurance policies to 1,600 Medicaid recipients in nursing homes in Oklahoma. Some of the nursing home residents that bought the insurance didn’t …
Texas Nursing Home Aide Bites Alzheimer’s Patient’s Head
As a certified nurse aide was helping an Abilene nursing home resident on the toilet, the resident bit her arm. The aide yelled, but the resident didn’t let up on her bite. The nurse decided to get her to stop by biting the resident’s forehead, according to court documents. The resident was assessed, and it was confirmed that she had …
Nursing Homes Make Heavy Use of Anti-Psychotic Drugs
A Boston Globe investigation recently showed that roughly 185,000 nursing home residents in the United States were given anti-psychotics in 2010 against federal nursing home regulators’ recommendations. These types of drugs are intended to treat severe mental illness like schizophrenia. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration released a medical alert about the fatal side effects of when dementia patients take …
Big Spring Nursing Home Investigation
The Texas Department of Disability and Aging Services is investigating the Lamun-Lusk-Sanchez nursing home. The State received a complaint about the nursing home that serves veterans, and after investigating the complaint the nursing home was put on immediate jeopardy status. This means there may be a situation that could harm the health or safety of one or more residents at …
Nursing Home Abuse Caught on Camera
Quail Creek Nursing Home and Rehabilitation Center in Oklahoma City fired two employees accused of abusing a 96-year-old dementia patient. The two employees were arrested for the charge of neglect by caretaker. The victim’s family put a camera in the room because they thought someone was stealing from the patient. But instead, the film caught the nursing assistant slapping the …
Texas Nursing Home Employees Fired After Reporting Abuse
Two nurse assistants at Bandera Road’s Princeton Place nursing home in San Antonio were fired after reporting abuse of elderly patients. The nurses reported that some patients had unusual and excessive bruising in the shape of finger imprints, and also had torn skin on their faces. There are 134 patients at the nursing home, and the employees wondered if there …
