Title: Why are Residents Abused in Nursing Homes? - Reasons and Causes
Headings: Nursing Home Abuse Causes
Nursing Home Abuse Causes
What Causes Nursing Home Abuse?
Below are some of the top reasons why experts feel that nursing home abuse occurs:
Understaffed Workforce
Undertrained Staff
Undertrained staff can come in many forms:
Underpaid Staff
Other Caregiver Issues
Individual caregiver issues that cause nursing home abuse may include:
Poor Nursing Home Management
Lack of Consequences
Resident Risk Factors for Nursing Home Abuse
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Content: Over time, this neglect can lead to long-term failure to provide basic needs which can constitute abuse. When a nursing home is chronically understaffed, it creates a stressful and hostile environment. The staff may even become disgruntled and bitter, feeling unsupported and ill-equipped to do their jobs. Understaffing is especially bad across the nursing home industry. According to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), the fewer nurses a home has on its staff means that its residents will get a lower standard of care. “Most of the bad outcomes are the result of insufficient staffing and insufficiently trained staff. It’s pretty much a universal problem,” said Toby Edelman, senior policy attorney for the Center for Medicare in Washington, D.C., in a 2018 interview with the Hartford Courant. A low ratio of caregivers to residents means the existing staff is more likely to miss severe issues. Other staff members may take their frustration out on residents, which can occur through physical or verbal abuse. The CMS announced in late 2018 that it would take new measures to prevent understaffing, using payroll data to determine what nursing homes are understaffed.