A nursing home abuse lawyer can bring hope

Posted by Bruce Westbrook

August 8, 2008

In this election year, there’s much talk of hope, as there should be in any campaign season. After all, without some hope, why bother voting for either side? But hope isn’t solely about society or the world improving. Sometimes it’s closer to home — wherever that home may be. And as millions of Americans ease into their elder years, that home, for many, will become a nursing home. And that’s where hope gets tricky.

Nursing home abuse and nursing home neglect have been common in America for decades. While many nursing homes and assisted living facilities are deservedly reputable, many others — too many others — are not, often due to underpaid, undertrained and overworked staff.

The American Geriatrics Society reports that each year brings an estimated 450,000 new cases of nursing home abuse. That means an elder’s hopes for security and comfort may be in danger if the nursing home they’ve chosen isn’t the right one.

Often that choice might be a financial one, given the hard reality that the average nursing home private room costs almost $78,000 per year. This may mean someone settles for a lesser facility, or perhaps just one closer to their family. And that may mean later being subject to nursing home neglect and abuse.

If this matter for you is before the fact — before entering a nursing home — then choose a nursing home carefully, for yourself or your loved ones. After all, that choice may mean the difference between a life of continued hope and one of dark despair, ranging from malnutrition and bedsores to mental or emotional abuse to life-threatening physical violence.

But if this choice is now after the fact, and if you or a loved one has suffered nursing home neglect or abuse, then there is still hope — hope in the services of Jim S. Adler & Associates. The law firm offers a free case review.

Led by Jim “The Hammer” Adler, Texas’ toughest and smartest nursing home neglect lawyers will fight for you to seek justice in an injustice — and hope in hopelessness.

You’ll also know that, by holding those guilty of nursing home abuse accountable, you’ll have given more hope to others who follow — hope for a life whose meaning, comfort and dignity aren’t compromised by those who violate not just the law, but any true code of decency.

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