Reports Find Health Workers Still Aren't Alerting Police Regarding Likely Elder Abuse
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The report looks at claims sent to Medicare in 2016 for treatment of head injuries, body bruises, bed sores and other diagnoses that might indicate physical abuse, sexual abuse or severe neglect.Gloria Jarmon, deputy inspector general for audit services, says her team found that nursing homes failed to report nearly 1 in 5 of these potential cases to the state inspection agencies charged with investigating them."Some of the cases we saw, a person is treated in an emergency room [and] they're sent back to the same facility where they were potentially abused and neglected," Jarmon says.But the failure to record and follow up on possible cases of elder abuse is not just the fault of the nursing homes.
As said here by Ina Jaffe