Our aging population depends more and more on nursing homes, rehabilitation centers, assisted living facilities, and long-term care providers. Families place extraordinary trust in these facilities to care for vulnerable adults with dignity, safety, and compassion. When that trust is broken through abuse or neglect, the consequences can be devastating. In Brooklyn, Staten Island, and throughout New York City, nursing home abuse cases often involve harm that is hidden, repeated, and preventable.

Some of the worst signs of nursing home abuse are not immediately visible. Abuse can be physical, psychological, sexual, financial, or tied to neglect and inattention. Common examples include improper or excessive use of restraints, hitting, burning, kicking, punching, pushing, over-sedation, dehydration, malnutrition, verbal abuse, threats, isolation, sexual assault, theft, forged checks, abuse of power of attorney, bedsores, poor hygiene, wandering, infection, and failures to provide adequate nutrition, supervision, or medical care.

Our attorneys help families investigate whether a parent, grandparent, spouse, or other loved one has been mistreated in a nursing home or long-term care facility. We review medical charts, care plans, staffing records, facility policies, photographs, surveillance footage when available, wound care records, medication records, financial documents, witness statements, and expert review to determine how the abuse or neglect happened and who should be held responsible.

We pursue compensation for medical expenses, pain and suffering, emotional distress, disability, financial losses, and wrongful death damages when nursing home negligence or abuse leads to a fatal outcome. We never charge to investigate your case, and we handle nursing home abuse claims on a contingency fee basis, so you pay no legal fee unless we recover compensation for you.