Nursing Home Abuse or Neglect?
Get Help from our La Crosse Elder Law Lawyers
Nursing homes have a duty to protect our Coulee Region elderly. When they don’t, we do.
Moen Sheehan Meyer, Ltd has protected the legal rights, safety, and dignity of our Coulee Region elders since our inception in 1853. Through aggressive advocacy and skilled litigation when necessary, our La Crosse Elder Law lawyers right the wrongs of nursing home abuse. With nursing home populations growing at an unprecedented rate, adequate facilities, and skilled, caring workers are in shortened supply. We have entrusted the nursing home to provide the daily care and attention our loved ones deserve. The abuse of this trust is unacceptable and potentially deadly. It is vital to empower the experience and legal knowledge of Moen Sheehan Meyer, Ltd to help you put a stop to any form of abuse.
La Crosse Nursing Home Abuse
- Physical
- Acts of violence - Force-feeding, striking with or without an object, pushing, shoving, beating, shaking, kicking, pinching, burning
- Inappropriate use of drugs and physical restraints, force-feeding
- Symptoms and signs –
- Bruises, welts, cuts, punctures
- Bone fractures
- Broken eyeglasses/frames
- Sudden change in behavior
- Refusal by nursing home worker to allow visitor to see resident alone
- Sexual
- Non-consensual sexual contact of any kind with verbal resident or resident incapable of giving consent
- Unwanted touching, coerced nudity, sexually explicit photography, rape, sodomy
- Symptoms and signs –
- Breast or genital area bruises
- Unexplained genital infection or venereal disease
- Unexplained anal or vaginal bleeding
- Bloody, stained, or torn underclothing
- Report by resident of sexual assault
- Emotional and Psychological
- Verbal or non-verbal infliction of distress, pain, or anguish
- Verbal assaults - Threats, insults, intimidation, humiliation, harassment
- Forced social isolation
- “Silent treatment”
- Symptoms and signs –
- Upset or agitated
- Withdrawn, non-communicative, non-responsive
- Exhibiting behaviors – rocking, sucking, biting
- Report by resident of verbal or emotional mistreatment
- Neglect
- Failure or refusal to fulfill any obligation, duty, or necessary care to resident
- Symptoms and signs –
- Dehydration, malnutrition, poor personal hygiene, bedsores
- Lack of necessary medical aids – eyeglasses, hearing aids, dentures
- Untreated health problems
- Unsafe, unsanitary, hazardous living conditions – no heat, improper electrical wiring, no running water, soiled bedding, fecal/urine smells, fleas or lice on person, inadequate clothing
- Report by resident of mistreatment
- Abandonment
- Desertion of resident care responsibility by nursing home worker
- Symptoms and signs –
- Public location abandonment
- Report by resident of abandonment
- Financial and Material Exploitation
- Improper or illegal use of funds, property, or assets
- Cashing checks
- Forging signature
- Stealing money or possessions
- Coercion or deceit to sign beneficiary designation change or will
- Improper use of guardianship, conservatorship, or power of attorney
- Symptoms and signs –
- Unexplained bank account withdrawal of large sums of money by person accompanying resident
- Inclusion of additional names on resident’s bank signature card
- Unauthorized ATM withdrawal
- Sudden change in will or other financial documents
- Disappearance of monies or valuable possessions
- Previously uninvolved relatives claiming rights to affairs and possessions
- Report by resident of financial exploitation
Contact Our La Crosse Elder Law Firm
Do not allow your loved one to risk the loss of their hard-earned assets, serious emotional or physical injury, or death. If you are aware of ANY form of abuse to your loved one through a nursing home or other facility, contact a La Crosse Elder Law attorney at Moen Sheehan Meyer, Ltd immediately!