Elder Financial Abuse
Elder financial abuse involves someone or a group of individuals who an elderly person trusts misappropriating their financial resources or otherwise abusing their financial control over that elderly person. Elder financial abuse can occur in varying ways, including:...
Admission and Billing Problems in Nursing Homes
The admission process and overall billing at nursing homes is plagued with issues, from manipulating family and friends into taking on financial responsibility for an incoming nursing home resident, to forcing residents to sign arbitration forms, to excessive charges....
25 Most Common Nursing Home Issues
If you have loved one in a nursing facility, or you're thinking about placing a loved one there, there are some things you need to keep an eye out for. These are outside of the usual nursing home abuse issues that are often focused on. Even if the nursing home is one...
Hygiene Issues in Nursing Homes: How They Affect the Patients & the Facility
Improper hygiene in nursing homes is a real and very serious issue. Health problems can develop when these facilities don’t use proper sanitation. Residents who live under poor hygiene conditions are far more likely to catch disease-causing bacteria or viruses, which...
Don’t Let Loved Ones Endure Bed Sores
This is about as simple as it gets: there is never a reason you or someone you love should have bed sores while in the hands of a care facility. It might shock you to think about nursing home neglect still being an issue in 2017, but it is. And for anyone that has had...
Nursing Home Abuse: An Overview
A lot of potential clients fill out the contact form or call our Sand Springs office because they simply aren’t sure whether or not they have a case. They themselves have been the victim of abuse or neglect in an eldercare facility, or they are inquiring on behalf of...
Sand Springs Wrongful Death & Car Wrecks Help
There are a lot of situations in life that cause a large amount of physical and emotional pain. The key is to find a way to cope with what has happened as well as getting justice for what has been done. In Sand Springs, car accidents happen all the time. The first...
Choosing the Right Nursing Home Lawyer
There are thousands of different attorneys in Oklahoma, so choosing the right one can be difficult and time consuming. But it shouldn’t be. Especially when it comes to the protection of your friends and family members. All too often nursing homes fail to provide the...
Use of Anti-Psychotic Medications Now Influence Nursing Home Ratings
The Federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services now includes the use of anti-psychotic medications in the ratings for all nursing homes. Although the use of anti-psychotic medications can be necessary to treat some residents, frequently nursing homes...
New Study Ranks Oklahoma Near Bottom in Nation in Nursing Home Quality
Oklahoma ranks in the bottom 5 of all states in Medicare rating system for nursing homes in United States An exhaustive study recently released by the Kaiser Family Foundation compared the rankings of nursing homes nationwide.The Study analyzed the Medicare (CMS)...
Oklahoma Court Upholds Right to Jury Trial for Nursing Home Abuse Victims
One of the favorite tactics that nursing homes use is to insert arbitration clauses into the admission contracts. Then, when a resident is injured or killed by the nursing home’s abuse, the nursing home’s lawyers argue that the family cannot go to Court to seek...
Oklahoma Supreme Court Strikes Down Yet Another Arbitration Agreement
In another victory for the right of a trial by jury, the Oklahoma Supreme Court struck down a nursing home arbitration agreement. In Johnson v. Convalescent Center of Grady County, LLC, 2014 OK 102, the Supreme Court held that if an arbitration agreement is signed by...
SCHEDULE A CONSULT WITH THE LEGAL EXPERTS AT LLOYD & LLOYD
No family wants to face having to put a loved one into a nursing home. However, if it is necessary to take this step, the family deserves to know that the promises of the nursing home to take care of their parent(s) are true.
