| A Nursing homes' sole purpose is to give physical, | | | | sorts of injustices and abuses between their |
| occupational and rehabilitative therapies. In the United | | | | walls.Different eye witnesses and surveys have |
| States, there were more than 16,000 nursing homes | | | | shown that nursing home abuse is a reality, and that |
| in 2002 and all of them are asked to work under | | | | it is sadly underreported. Among the reasons for this |
| governmental and legal requirements such as: to have | | | | alarming percentage of cases of elder mistreatment, |
| a licensed nursed on duty 24/7, and during at least | | | | there are stressful working conditions (staff |
| one shift each day, one of those nurses must be a | | | | shortages), staff burnout and inadequate staff |
| Registered Nurse (a professional nurse who | | | | training. If the work conditions are not the best at |
| supervises the assistants).Depending on the type of | | | | nursing homes, this is obviously shown in the |
| assistance the resident needs, daily costs of a nursing | | | | treatment the staff gives the residents. There has |
| home can run between US$350 and up. When a | | | | been dreadful and unbelievable cases of elder abuse: |
| family decides to put a dear one into one of these | | | | open wounds, cuts, bruises, burns caused by |
| places, they rely on the good will and attention from | | | | cigarettes, caustics, acids, dehydration, malnutrition, |
| the crew of the home. They expect to get great of | | | | unclean conditions, and fecal or urine odor.If you find |
| attention, so that good physical and emotional | | | | out that a relative or a friend of yours is undergoing |
| conditions of living are pertained. Unfortunately, this is | | | | one of these situations, try to contact the immediate |
| not what happens all the time. Besides representing a | | | | authorities and report the case. |
| place of relief for many, nursing homes have seen all | | | | |