Did Your Family Member Suffer from Dehydration in a Nursing Home?
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People without experience in the long-term care-giving field (either as caregivers, as administrators, as policymakers or as attorneys) are often shocked to hear that residents of long-term care facilities are often found to have suffered from dehydration. Keeping a vulnerable, weak person properly hydrated may seem to be a fundamental assumption for caregivers.
Unfortunately, this is often not the case. To understand how this can happen, picture a typical lunch break at a nursing home. Just as the saying goes, "You can lead a horse to water, but you cannot make him drink." Similarly, you can give an older person water at mealtimes and during time between meals — but you cannot make him or her drink. Dehydration may become a way of life if the resident is not monitored properly. Taking steps to ensure that the residents of a long-term care facility are adequately hydrated is a simple, yet very serious, part what constitutes the acceptable standards of care under which the operators of those facilities must operate.
Our nursing home neglect plaintiffs' attorneys are prepared to evaluate your case and to fight on your behalf after your mother or father was dehydrated. We bring wrongful death claims against nursing homes when residents have died in suspicious circumstances such as when dehydration is apparent at the time of death.
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