Types of Virginia Nursing Home Abuse | Norfolk Medical Malpractice Lawyer

The types of nursing home negligence in Virginia vary, but typically fall into two general categories:  nursing home neglect and nursing home abuse.  In either case, the effects can be devastating, not only on the nursing home resident (the victim), but on the victim's family.  Placing a family member into a nursing home in the first place can be one of life's most difficult decisions.  When the nursing home, intended to be a safe place of residence for your loved one, fails to provide adequate care to the patient, the emotional, physical, and financial burden on the victim and family members can be tremendous.  Knowing that abuse was involved can add weight to such already heavy burdens.  Among the common types of nursing home abuse are the following:

• physical abuse (such as hitting, striking, pushing, shaking, slapping, or burning the resident)
• emotional abuse (such as inflicting abuse through verbal assaults, humiliation, isolation, or threats)
• neglect (often placed in its own category, neglect involves depriving the patient of needs)
• abandonment (occurs when the nursing home worker leaves or fails to care for the resident)
• material or financial exploitation (illegal use of a patient's possessions or money)
• sexual abuse (including touching of private areas without consent).
  

If you or a loved one has been a victim of any of these acts of nursing home abuse or any other act of nursing home or medical negligence in Virginia, feel free to contact Norfolk medical malpractice lawyer Lawrence Land.  Compassionate yet professional toward victims (and their families) of medical malpractice, Land will answer your questions for free and provide you with the resources you need.  For more information, contact Lawrence Land via his online form or call him at 800-800-1911.