Nursing Home Abuse
How to Make It Stop and What You Should Do About It Now
Nursing homes are supposed to be safe environments. They’re the places our senior citizens and elders should be treated with respect, dignity and kindness.
Unfortunately, thousands of our senior family members suffer needless, traumatic abuse at the hands of negligent and abusive caregivers. In Louisiana, nursing home abuse and neglect is a very serious issue.
Abuse and negligence occurs when caretakers are poorly trained, unqualified, unsupervised and paid extremely low wages. Also, abuse and neglect can result because facilities are very under-staffed. If your family member has suffered, or even died, due to the fault of a staff person or facility, you probably felt guilt, pain and shock. Just like you, we want to make sure the caregiver never hurts another person again.
My name is Mike Gertler of the Gertler Law Firm. My partners and I, as New Orleans Nursing Home Abuse Attorneys, have seen broken bones, brain injuries, malnutrition, bedsores, dehydration and other serious mental and physical damages sustained by nursing home residents as a result of abuse. I find it very disturbing — and unacceptable — that elder abuse or negligence is on the rise. It needs to be stopped.
We have seen nursing home victims and family members sustain many different forms of abuse, including:
- Abandonment
- Emotional, Verbal and Psychological Abuse
- Financial Exploitation
- Medical Neglect
- Physical Abuse
- Physical Neglect
- Sexual Abuse
Understandably, you want answers and you want to know what legal rights you and your elder parent or relative are entitled. Please call us at 504-355-0057. Or, use our toll-free number at 1-855-GERTLER. We’ll have an open, confidential conversation about the situation and we’ll answer any questions you have. As always, there is no cost to call us.
If we decide to take the next step together, know that you won’t have to pay out-of-pocket for costs or expenses unless we secure a settlement or are successful in the courtroom.
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to give us a call.
Mike Gertler
