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Nursing Home Choking Death: What Are Your Legal Rights?

A Dayton, Ohio family recently filed a lawsuit against a local nursing home after their father choked to death, an incident captured on surveillance video. According to the Scioto Valley Guardian, the video shows staff failing to intervene as the resident gasped for air and eventually collapsed. This is heartbreaking, and unfortunately, it’s not uncommon. […]

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Can Nursing Home Escapes Be Prevented?

When a loved one escapes from a care facility, families are left shaken and searching for answers. If the incident was preventable, and most are, you may need an experienced attorney for nursing home neglect to help you understand your rights and pursue justice. Sadly, these cases are far too common. Residents, especially those with […]

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Four Ways to Prevent Nursing Home Abuse

We can’t always control when and where a loved one goes into a nursing home or assisted living facility. In a perfect world, we would have unlimited time, money, and information with which to make the best, safest choice. Unfortunately, this is not a perfect world, so we must make the best decisions we can, […]

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Falls Can Kill — Stay STEADI

Falling can be deadly for any of us, but especially for people over 65 years of age. The CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) just issued a report outlining the danger and prevalence of falls in nursing homes and at home. The numbers are scary: In 2014, falls caused 27,000 deaths and 7 million […]

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