O’Connor, Parsons, Lane & Noble wants to help families get justice for nursing home abuse. Our Bridgewater lawyers can work with you to investigate instances of physical, emotional, sexual, and financial abuse, as well as negligence, in an effort to hold the right people accountable for a loved one’s wrongful suffering.
We opened our doors in 2008. In the years since, we’ve helped tens of thousands of clients demand financial support based on the negligence and mistreatment that has plagued their lives. Our clients can trust our Bridgewater medical malpractice lawyers to create a supportive environment in which they can discuss their possible roads to recovery.
Our nursing home abuse law firm is committed to treating clients like you as part of our team. If you have questions about your right to justice after instances of nursing home abuse, contact us today. Your case consultation with our team members comes free of charge.
Recognizing Nursing Home Abuse
It’s not always easy to recognize the different kinds of nursing home abuse that can impact your elderly loved ones. First and foremost, there are several types of abuse to consider, including:
- Physical abuse, including inappropriate and often violent contact between a nursing home’s staff and its residents. Common types of physical abuse include hitting, slapping, or the inappropriate use of restraints against a resident.
- Emotional abuse, or a staff member’s deliberate attempts to isolate, embarrass, threaten, or psychologically torment a resident.
- Sexual abuse, or non-consensual sexual or intimate contact between a resident and staff members. Residents who do not have the means to recognize their surroundings or verbalize their consent can fall victim to sexual abuse, as can residents who’ve asked staff members to leave them alone.
- Financial abuse, or a nursing home’s systemic misuse of a resident’s funds. Some staff members can trick residents into spending their funds on unreasonable purchases, while other homes can go behind their residents’ backs and misuse the money that they were meant to safeguard.
What’s more, neglect can serve as its own form of abuse. Nursing homes that neglect their residents may leave residents in unsanitary rooms or without essential medical care for prolonged periods of time. Any residents who don’t have access to food, water, or a clean and safe living environment may be victims of systemic neglect, whether or not it’s intentional.
Medical Negligence and Nursing Home Abuse
Many of the aforementioned types of abuse can end up compounded with medical negligence. Nursing home residents who don’t receive essential medications, don’t get taken to key doctors’ appointments, don’t receive medical follow-ups, or who don’t have medical devices appropriately maintained may be victims of medical neglect.
Our Bridgewater nursing home abuse attorneys understand that these forms of abuse aren’t always easy to recognize. That’s why we encourage families to keep a close eye on their loved ones. If you suspect anything might be wrong with your loved one’s care, early conversations with an attorney can help protect them from further harm.
When to Contact a Bridgewater Nursing Home Abuse Lawyer
You don’t have to wait until you find your loved one in pain to connect with an attorney. At O’Connor, Parsons, Lane & Noble, we offer free case consultations to families who suspect that nursing homes may be mistreating their residents. We can work with professional investigators to take a closer look at a home’s conduct and take action accordingly.
We can help you hold inattentive and dangerous staff members responsible for physical, emotional, sexual, and financial abuse, as well as neglect. We do this by gathering evidence of your loved one’s mistreatment, outlining how that treatment falls short of an industry standard of care, and tying your loved one’s decline in health and other losses to their mistreatment.
We’re prepared to represent your family in ongoing conversations with insurance adjusters and other legal professionals when highlighting instances of nursing home abuse.
Our representation can help your family secure the financial support that you need to cover the cost of a loved one’s restorative care.
Demanding Compensation for Nursing Home Abuse
Whether we negotiate with an insurance company for an abuse settlement or present a nursing home abuse lawsuit to a civil judge, our nursing home abuse lawyers serving Bridgewater, NJ, can help you demand comprehensive financial support based on a loved one’s mistreatment.
We assign dollar values to the economic and non-economic losses that residents endure at the hands of nursing homes and their staff members, including losses like the following:
- Pain and suffering
- Emergency medical services
- Ongoing medical care, including rehabilitation, physical therapy, and upcoming surgeries, as appropriate
- Emotional distress
- Reduced quality of life
- Relocation fees, as appropriate
You can discuss what steps we can take to value your nursing home abuse claim during a free case assessment with our team.
We Fight for Your Family
At O’Connor, Parsons, Lane & Noble, we don’t let nursing home abuse go unaddressed. We have spent years working with families like yours to demand justice for the mistreatment that the elderly and vulnerable can face when under the care of negligent and abusive healthcare professionals.
You can trust us to understand the pain that you and your family are going through. We can connect with you the moment that you suspect nursing home abuse and begin an investigation into the specific instances of misconduct that entitle you to legal action. We can then represent you during ongoing conversations about your family’s right to compensatory financial aid.
Our efforts have helped us serve tens of thousands of clients since we opened our doors in 2008. If you’re ready to work with a nursing home abuse attorney serving Bridgewater, contact our office and set up your free case consultation.