Pleasant Law Blog (Insurance Claims, Medical Misakes, and Nursing Home Claims)

Nursing Home Wrongful Death in UK

Apparently the same problems exist in the UK that exist in nursing homes in the United States. This recent article, published in a UK periodical, highlights the kind of wrongdoing seen all too often in nursing home abuse and neglect cases in the United States; including forging records to conceal improper or lack of care, and retaliation against residents who complain. Unfortunately, as in this case, skilled nursing care requirements often force family, as a last resort, to put their elderly loved one into a nursing home. When that happens, though, the family should be able to expect reasonably that the nursing home will do its job. Medicare regulations are strict and plenty, but nursing homes often cannot comply due to understaffing imposed on management by upper-management's unrealistic budget constraints. The kind of behavior/care outlined in this article demonstrates the result. Hiring a nursing home abuse/neglect lawyer adn pursuing remedies through the courts is sometimes the only way to deter this kind of conduct by nursing homes.