Neglect In Nursing Home

There are over two million elderly people living in nursing homes today (Franklin, 2013).
No one ever expects to live out his or her later years in life in a nursing home. When people are young they may not realize the obstacles in life that may cause them not to have a place or person to spend their older years in life with. Regrettably, many of the elderly are not treated with the care and respect they deserve. “Poor quality of care is endemic in many nursing homes” (Fernandez, 2011). It is the responsibility of the younger generation to make sure that the elderly are taken care of and that neglect does not happen. Nursing homes have too many patients and not enough care-givers compared to home care that has familiar one on one care. Home-based

According to JAMA (The Journal of the American Medical Association) bed sores, also known as pressure ulcers, happen to those who have continued exposer to moisture, like urine or feces and are confined to a bed or wheelchair (Gill, 2003). What happens most of the time is that a nurse has so many patients to take care of that they just do not have the time or they do not care about individual patients. When elderly people complains or gripe about his or her position or the situation they may not have a voice in the matter because the facility is following doctors’ orders. For the most part, patients spend most of the day in their room by themselves, often only checked on during rounds. The elderly are often left to succumb to boredom and depression due to the fact of no companionship. The people who were once active in their community now have to be confined to a small room, and unfamiliar surrounding which can have devastating

Many seniors around the world are being abused and harmed in some substantial way often by people who are directly responsible for their care (Robinson, 2016). Neglect of all forms causes harm to a patients overall well-being. Neglect happens in 60% of people and physical abuse happens to 15% of people (Franklin, 2013). There are three different types of neglect that can happen especially to the elderly. The three types of neglect are mental, emotional and physical neglect. Mental neglect, is basically ignoring or just not showing care or love for the patient. Emotional neglect is not only ignoring, but isolating the patient from others. Physical neglect which is causing physical injury to the body from rough handleing or non-supervision. Neglect is damaging not only to a body but also to the mind and over all