Skilled Nursing Facility

• A known wanderer leaves the facility undetected. She falls and dies six months later of her injuries.
• A hospital bed brake fails during transfer causing a resident to drop to the floor.
• A nursing home takes no safety precautions to prevent an agitated newly admitted resident from falling. She falls and suffers severe injuries.
• A nursing home discharges a patient to his disabled wife’s care.
• Required staffing levels are not met resulting in elder neglect.
• An elderly woman at high risk for falling is left unattended on a commode.
• A consumer advocacy group sues the state run nursing home claiming that its residents are denied the right to live in the community and receive local services.
• Two unsupervised residents have an altercation resulting in the death of one.
• An elderly woman is in a nursing home recovering from a hip fracture. While there she falls a second time breaking her other hip.
• A state run long term care facility is sued for alleged deficiencies and for not adhering to the Olmstead Act which requires “a least restrictive setting” for its residents.
• A woman’s broken leg left is unattended resulting in amputation.
• An elderly resident refuses dialysis. The facility fails to notify family. She suffers renal failure, fluid overland and dies shortly after.

Assisted Living/RCFE/ Board & Care

• An assisted living resident, on large doses of painkillers, is left to smoke in the facility’s smoking room. She catches fire and dies of her burns.
• An elderly RCFE resident is sent to the ER for breathing difficulties. Upon examination it is determined that she has a hip fracture.
• A heat wave causes multiple air condition failures in a community. A deceased resident’s family alleges that the AC failure in the RCFE is a result of negligence and causes the elder’s death.
• A physical therapist leaves a Board & Care resident alone on a porch. The resident attempts to enter the house falling and breaking her hip.
• An assisted living resident refuses care and food. She dies of stage four decubitus ulcers.
• A 72 year old man falls in his room and is left undetected on floor for 3 days.
• A male resident allegedly rapes a female resident.
• A resident is abandoned in a Board & Care facility and suffers brain damage from a fall.
• Staff fails to treat bed sores and report stage 4 decubitus ulcers to family and medical doctor.
• Staff on phone does not respond to alarm which alerts staff that resident has left premises. Resident found in gutter with broken hip and subdural hemotoma.
• Improper admission to an assistant living facility results in broken hip, downward health spiral and death.
• Man in Alzheimer’s unit elopes. Efforts to return him to facility results in severe arm fracture.
• Ninety –five year old resident is not assisted disembarking from van. She falls and suffers hemotoma.
• Man falls, but is not transferred to hospital for evaluation. He suffers a compression fracture in lower lumbar.

Adult Day Care/AdultDay Health Care

• An 80 year old participant is transported from the center to her home. The van driver leaves her off without assistance in an unfamiliar location with uneven terrain resulting in a broken wrist.
• Two elderly Adult Day Health Care Center participants have an altercation. One collapses and dies.
• An elderly participant of an Adult Day Care facility is placed on the wrong van, delivered to the wrong address and ultimately has a fatal heart attack after wandering aimlessly in unfamiliar neighborhood.
• An elderly woman resists getting into a car leaving day care. Her daughter-in-law is charged with physical abuse trying to get her into the vehicle.
• Woman boards a van unsupervised, falls backward. strikes head on asphalt, and suffers a hemotoma.

Home Health Care

• While in the care of a novice home health care worker, an elderly woman falls in the shower, breaks her leg and dies some months later.
• An agency sends out an abusive worker.
• A home care worker is hired to provide 24 hour care for resident in RCFE. Worker leaves for dinner and resident falls out of bed.

Conservatorship

• A relative petitions the court for “substituted judgment” in order to have the conservatee’s estate left to him.  The court seeks expert testimony regarding the conservatee’s wishes.
• A conservatee is “kidnapped” by her elderly boyfriend. Upon return to the RCFE, the court requests an expert opinion regarding whether the boyfriend should have continued access to the woman.

Hospital

•  Staff leaves scalding coffee near bedside of weak patient. No safety precautions taken. Woman suffers burns. 

Mental Capacity

• Adult children contest their father’s estate plan saying he was not of sound mind when it was executed.
• An 88 year old requires an evaluation to determine her mental capacity to manage financial resources.
• A woman alleges that her daughter tricked her into signing over her home.
• Four siblings allege that their brother used undue influence to persuade their father to name their brother as the single beneficiary of his estate.
• Financial advisor conducts financial transactions for client who is unconscious. Family claims that transactions were done without permission.