Nursing Home Abuse Center

The Nursing Home Abuse Center was founded on time-honored principles of restoring dignity for some of our most vulnerable and valuable citizens.

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A federal rule requiring 24/7 registered nurse coverage in nursing homes was repealed earlier this year. Facilities are still required to staff 'sufficiently,' but without a concrete number, that's harder to hold them to.

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October is LGBTQ History Month. 67% of LGBTQ seniors fear nursing home neglect, and 62% fear abuse, according to SAGE USA. More than half worry they'll have to hide who they are to feel safe.

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Nearly half of nursing home residents have Alzheimer's or another dementia. The most common type of nursing home abuse cited by inspectors right now isn't staff. It's resident-on-resident.

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A #nursinghome caregiver allegedly filmed residents naked and shared it in a group chat called ‘Traitors and Besties.’ She’s in court. Police say 3 residents recorded, 6 employees fired, only 1 charged.

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Nursing home residents are 7x more likely than others to develop severe sepsis (NIH), and almost half who do die from it while hospitalized. It often starts as an untreated infection.

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Nursing home residents are 7x more likely than others to develop severe sepsis (NIH), and almost half who do die from it while hospitalized. It often starts as an untreated infection.

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Roughly 1 in 5 nursing home residents experience malnutrition. Watch for: unexplained weight loss, sudden confusion, extreme fatigue, dizziness.

Trust your instinct.

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You're already stretched thin managing your own kids, your job, and now a parent's care from a facility that's cutting corners on both. If your loved one was hurt or neglected, you don't have to just absorb that. Get a free case review https://t.co/aKfgpxtnBo

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Adult children across the country are paying $8,000+ a month for "care." Their parents are still waiting hours for help that never comes ...because one aide is covering 40 residents. This isn't bad luck. It's a business model. 🧵

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Only 11% of for-profit nursing homes meet new federal staffing minimums (Kaiser Family Foundation, 2024). Eighty-nine percent are operating below the bar — and still collecting your check every month.

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The industry has known understaffing leads to preventable falls, bedsores, and worse since the 1980s. Not tragic accidents. Predictable outcomes of a math problem they chose not to solve.

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A 2024 Kaiser Family Foundation study found only 11% of for-profit nursing homes meet the new federal staffing standards. Eleven. Percent. And these are the "standards," not some aspirational dream.

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~1 in 4 nursing home residents is given antipsychotic medication at some point. Sometimes it's treatment. Sometimes it's an improper restraint used for staff convenience.

Know the difference.

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We graded nursing home safety nationwide using federal staffing, abuse citation, and turnover data.

Louisiana ranked dead last. New Hampshire ranked #1.

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Nursing home rights aren't the same in every state. Our new free tool shows your state's resident rights, abuse hotline, legal deadlines, and safety ranking — all in one place.

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Nursing home residents fall at 2x the rate of seniors living independently. ~1,800 die yearly from falls — and 43% of serious falls go unreported, even ones causing major injury.

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Nursing home abuse isn't always physical. NCEA recognizes 7 types: physical, sexual, emotional, financial, neglect, abandonment, self-neglect. ~1 in 10 residents experiences at least one each year.

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About 1 in 10 nursing home residents develops a pressure sore. It can start forming in as little as 2 hours.

See what these painful sores can look like — and how quickly they can worsen.

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1 in 3 Medicare nursing home residents experiences harm in their first month. Nearly 60% is preventable, and 37% involves medication errors.

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Two AL assisted living employees admitted to intentionally overmedicating a hospice patient. She died days later. Families in similar situations may have legal options.

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