Nursing Home Lawyers: Resident Wandering, Elopement
Nursing home residents are often physically or cognitively impaired and are unable to protect themselves. Nursing homes are legally required to keep their residents safe. Part of that responsibility is to prevent residents from leaving the property (elopement) or wandering aimlessly into dangerous areas inside the nursing home.
When a resident gets hurt after wandering or elopement, the nursing home can be sued for negligence.
Nursing Homes Must Prevent Residents from Wandering
Vulnerable nursing home residents can become seriously injured if they wander into inappropriate areas of the facility, such as the kitchen, laundry or mechanical areas. They can harm others if they are allowed to wander into other resident's rooms.
A nursing home resident who elopes, or leaves the nursing home property, faces countless dangers, including getting hit by a car to developing frostbite from exposure.
If a nursing home failed in its duty to protect your loved one from harm caused by wandering or elopement, please contact an attorney at Dansky | Katz | Ringold | York
We represent clients throughout New Jersey and Pennsylvania, including the South Jersey and Philadelphia areas.
