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Abuse And Neglect In Nursing Homes

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Abuse and Neglect in Nursing Homes

Thesis: A growing argument and concern in healthcare today is elder abuse in nursing

homes.

Have you thought of the time you visit you mother or father in a nursing

home? Have you also thought of the time when you went to visit and you noticed

there was aurine scent throughout the halls of the facility? Then you noticed

that the skin on the back of your mother’s legs was red and irritated. Are these

coincidences or not? There are many individuals facing the dilemma of admitting

their loved one into a nursing home. When they do finally make that

heartbreaking decision, their parentis there, then they are faced with the

realities of what happens in nursing homes on a daily
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