Need help with a Nursing Home Abuse matter?

You've come to the right place.  If you are a resident of a nursing home or other long-term care facility and have suffered physical or psychological harm because of your caregiver's negligent or intentional acts, a nursing home abuse lawyer can help.

Use FindLaw to hire a local nursing home abuse lawyer if you are the victim of nursing home abuse or nursing home neglect.


Nursing Home Abuse Definitions

Negligence: (n) failure to exercise the degree of care expected of a person of ordinary prudence in like circumstances in protecting others from a foreseeable and unreasonable risk of harm in a particular situation.

Abuse: (n) the infliction of physical or emotional injury; the crime of inflicting such injury see also battered child syndrome, battered woman's syndrome compare cruelty, neglect, including sexual abuse.


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