If you saw someone punch a disabled person with a closed fist on a street corner, most people would call the police. But when it happens behind the closed door of a nursing home, the response tends to be less clear-cut.At least that’s what staff attorneys from Disability Rights California found in a report that explores 12 cases of abuse against elderly or disabled people in California nursing homes. The nonprofit advocacy group's report is called "Victimized Twice: Abuse of nursing home residents, No criminal accountability for perpatrators."
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How true it is... there is no criminal accountability for perpatrators.
Shall we called many of the Court Appointed Guardianships...
"Victimized Three Times?"
Good for you, Disability Rights. I am glad to know you are out there advocating for the elderly and disabled.
Guardianship is the same way. Quite often it is instigated to "protect" victims of abuse and then the court-appointed "protectors" turn around and re-victimize the vulnerable person.
RIGHT. Abuse has a different connotation when it's done at a nursing home. There, it's called "care."
thank you disability rights
The saddest place on earth is a nursing home.
It's in all of our best interest to clean up nursing homes and hold them culpable for abuse because we may find ourselves confined to a facility some day....
The Nursing Home Transparency and Improvement Act, located within the health care bill our president signed in March, will force all new nursing home applicants to undergo background checks. Hopefully, this will help the abuse situation in nursing homes as well.
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