Reasons Fractures Occur Due to Nursing Home Abuse

While some fractures occur because of weakness of the bones in elderly nursing home patients, other fractures occur due to abuse, neglect, or abandonment.  There are many scenarios in which a nursing home resident can sustain a fracture where abuse, neglect, and abandonment are to blame.  Some of these situations occur due to a number of reasons.  A staff member may get impatient and grab a patient’s arm or shove them and cause a fracture in another part of the body.  Slips and falls may lead to fractures when residents are unsupervised and not monitored properly.  Residents may slip on a wet surface, fall out of bed, slip on the bathroom floor, or trip over any obstacles in their way.  All of these things can lead to fractures that can be hard to heal for nursing home residents.  Abusive staff members who have opportunities for abuse may actually forcefully break the arm of a nursing home resident if they become angry or if they feel like the resident must be punished for some reason.  This is one of the most sinister forms of abuse that takes place in a nursing home setting.  If your loved one has sustained a fracture due to the abuse, neglect, or abandonment of nursing home staff members, contacting a San Diego nursing home abuse attorney can help you to document your case and make the nursing home accountable for the actions of its staff members.