The time and energy needed to properly research and investigate nursing homes are exhausting at the very least. Factors such as location, services offered, availability and certainly finances must be carefully considered. Unfortunately, another factor that has become more and more predominant in the selection of a nursing home is the issue of safety. We have all heard the horror stories of nursing home residents being starved, beaten, neglected, yelled at and deprived of basic human necessities such as clean clothes, sheets and denied access to toilet facilities. There are also other physical, emotional and mental abuse that take place in these nursing homes.
Additional signs are dirt, soiled bed, fecal or urine odor.
You'd have your call light on for hours, but nobody came. What made her waiting more desolate was the near total deprivation of sunlight during her four months at Creekside. I really would have liked to see the sunshine, but they never put us outside. Things only got worse when the sun set, and the staff ignored calls for help or pain-killers. I couldn't fall asleep until 1 or 2 in the morning with all that screaming going on.