Nursing Home Negligence

Kansas City Nursing Home Negligence Help

The elderly in nursing homes rely on staff and professionals to handle their needs and provide the care that they can no longer provide for themselves. Their needs are referred to as ADLs or activities of daily living. ADLs include: dressing, bathing, toileting, personal hygiene, eating, providing water, and assistance in moving, such as getting in and out of bed or transferring to a chair.

Not providing the elderly with ADLs amounts to nursing home negligence. When the elderly are not given proper liquids and nutrition they can become dehydrated or ill. Consequences can be severe in many cases because often the elderly already suffer from physical ailments. If assistance is not given to help them move, they may fall and break bones or develop bed sores or skin ulcers. Alzheimer's patients left unwatched can wander off and get lost. Extreme negligence may take its toll resulting in severe medical complications and even death.

A lack of adequate staffing as well as a lack of staff that are sufficiently qualified and trained are some of the downfalls of nursing homes today. Private nursing homes that are run as for-profit institutions frequently cut back on staff to meet their bottom lines. As a result, residents fail to receive proper care and suffer from the lack of it.

Nursing home negligence may be difficult to detect. If you have good reason to believe your loved one has been subjected to nursing home negligence, our experience attorneys can discuss the situation with you and assist you in not only discovering whether nursing home negligence has occurred, but also in taking the proper legal action.

Call the Kansas City Law Offices of Davis, Bethune & Jones L.L.C. today at 1-800- 875-5972 to arrange a consultation with one of our experienced nursing home negligence attorneys.