Elder Law

Nursing Home Sued Over 95-year-old Resident?s fall

By Levin & Perconti

The guardian of a disabled 95-year-old woman says the elderly resident fell and fractured both of her hips while under the care of a nursing home. The guardian filed a nursing home negligence lawsuit against the nursing home. When the elderly woman was admitted to the nursing home, employees were aware that she suffered from Alzheimer?s and dementia and was usually disoriented and confused. Despite this knowledge, employees allowed to wander unattended in the hallway during the middle of the night. During one of these walks, she fell and fractured her left hip. She was then left unattended in a wheelchair and without a personal alarm, injuring herself again when she fall. The lawsuit claims that due to the victim?s numerous falls and the nursing home employees? negligence, the woman suffered pain of the body and mind and medical costs. To read more about the falls, please click the link.

Full post as published by Illinois Nursing Home Abuse Blog on June 03, 2009 (boomark / email).