South Florida Injury Lawyer Blog
One of the main underlying causes of elder abuse and neglect is nursing home understaffing. When a skilled nursing facility doesn’t have the staff necessary to provide each patient with an adequate level of care, it’s going to result in frustration, fatigue and mistakes. Stressed and overworked staffers are also more prone to commit acts of abuse. 
As our West Palm Beach nursing home injury lawyers can explain, understaffing is far from a new problem. A 2002 article published in the Journal of the National Medical Association found that more than 90 percent of nursing homes were understaffed back then.
Studies show that those who reside in a nursing home that is understaffed are at higher risk for:
- Bedsores
- Dehydration
- Malnutrition/weight loss
- Infections
- Falls