Chicago Personal Injury Blog

The decision to help a loved one relocate into a nursing home is never an easy one to make. Whether you are acting as a child, a sibling or as a spouse, it is likely that you have spent hours thinking about how to help your loved one live the highest quality of life possible given the circumstances.

Relocating to a nursing home can be a great decision in many cases, because it can allow the resident to live a relatively independent life. In can also enable easy access to social situations, and can help to avoid the loneliness that often comes with living alone as an elderly person.

If you have a grandparent, parent, spouse or other loved one who is a resident in a long-term care nursing facility, you may be worried about the level of care that they receive. You are right to be concerned. The Journal of the American Medical Association's (JAMA) findings indicate that many nursing homes fail to do all they can to prevent patients from falling.

When patients fall, they often suffer severe traumatic facial lacerations and injuries. Facial injuries are not just disfiguring - they can impair the resident's abilities to eat, drink, breathe and speak clearly. Suffering facial injuries in a fall can also make residents fearful, and thus, further limit their mobility. In time, they can wind up bed-bound and subject to the host of problems that impairment can bring.

If you are renting an apartment from a landlord, it will mean that you expect the apartment and the rest of the building to be in a reasonable condition. If you find the stairs difficult to climb or the floors slippery, you may have considered raising the issue to your landlord. You may also be concerned about hazards such as delivery packages or newspapers that are left on the floor in your building.

If you suffered a fall in your building and you believe that the hazardous conditions of the apartment were to blame, it is likely that you will feel anger and frustration. This will be exacerbated if you had previously complained to your landlord about the dangerous conditions in the building.

Most commonly, when a person is bitten by a dog, they know the owner. This means that even if they suffered a significant amount of pain and had to pay medical bills as a result of the incident, they may still be reluctant to take legal action.

However, dog bite victims must remember that if action is not taken, there may be a higher chance of the dog attacking again in the future. If the owner is not held legally liable for their actions, they may not take the incident seriously enough and may not do enough to avoid such incidents in the future.