If you house an elderly relative in a nursing home, you expect the facility to care for them. You place trust in the facility’s staff to provide for your relative’s needs and maintain a safe residence for them.
Unfortunately, not everyone working in a nursing home delivers on these expectations, and it can be the site of abuse for residents. If you suspect that your relative is suffering in a facility, you should call an experienced Chicago nursing home abuse lawyer for help. Our team of compassionate personal injury attorneys at Kaveny + Kroll can help you protect your relative and bring a compensation claim against the facility on their behalf.
What Nursing Home Abuse Can Look Like
Due to serious health conditions or aging, some elderly individuals require assistance to live happy, healthy lives. Nursing home residents may have limited mobility and may need to adhere to specific medication and treatment plans.
Nursing home abuse against a resident can include outright malicious acts, such as causing physical harm or denying care, nutrition, or medication on purpose. Individuals working in nursing homes might intentionally abuse a resident to exploit, extort, or simply harm them.
Not all abuse has malicious intent, however, as a nursing home may accidentally neglect a resident. A facility that does not rigorously train its employees or fails to create procedures to enforce high-quality care could neglect the residents under its charge and cause injury.
Your loved one may not be able to articulate what is happening to them if they are enduring abuse, as neglect can be subtle at first. However, if you recognize that your loved one is suffering from abuse in a Chicago nursing home, our attorneys can help you act quickly and ensure your loved one’s safety.
Getting Justice for a Nursing Home Resident With a Legal Claim
Once abuse becomes evident, the priority should be to move a resident out of the harmful situation. You may need the help of local and state authorities to ensure that your relative can be placed elsewhere and properly treated. Our lawyers can assist in getting your loved one out of the facility.
After your loved one is safe, our attorneys can help you bring a legal claim to ensure that the abuse ends and that the facility takes responsibility for it. A claim can be based on intentional actions by individuals, a facility’s negligence in caring for its residents, or both.
Depending on the circumstances, compensation could include medical costs for treatment resulting from abuse, as well as for the pain and suffering endured by your loved one. Our lawyers can show that these types of compensation are appropriate and necessary to make up for the abuse and neglect your loved one experienced in their nursing home.
Our legal team can build a claim against a nursing home by gathering evidence from an abused resident, other residents, and witnesses among the staff and visitors of the facility. If a Chicago nursing home did not select or train its staff properly or failed to care for and protect its residents, our lawyers can help you file a claim for negligent abuse.
Call a Chicago Nursing Home Abuse Attorney for Help
Caring for an elderly relative is no simple matter, and you deserve to know that your family member is safe and in trusted hands. A nursing home should not be able to breach that trust.
If they do, you should be able to hold the facility responsible with the help of a knowledgeable Chicago nursing home abuse lawyer. At Kaveny + Kroll, we dedicate ourselves to your case and communicate with you regularly, offering personalized guidance and support at every stage of the legal process.
Contact us today to learn more about how we can help you and your family pursue justice.