Nursing Home Abuse: Six Arrested for Greasing Dementia Patients with Cream as Prank
A prank on fellow nursing home workers became an example of nursing home abuse when six employees went too far and covered residents with a slippery cream. They had greased the patients so that their co-workers would have a difficult time handling the residents when providing them with nursing care, taking them to the bathroom, or moving them. All of the residents involved have dementia and never gave their consent to be a part of the joke.
The six nursing home workers have since been fired and arrested. They each face one misdemeanor county of injury to an elder or a dependent adult, battery committed while on hospital property, battery committed on an elder or a dependent adult, and conspiracy.
Fortunately, none of the patients were injured during the prank—though the grease on their bodies could have easily allowed them to slip through a caretaker’s grasp, placing them at risk of broken bones or a fractured hip in the event of a fall accident.
Nursing home workers should never take advantage of their patients by abusing, neglecting, or playing jokes on them without their consent. Such acts ignore a resident’s rights and can cause emotional trauma, pain, and suffering. Patients come to an assisted living facility because they need to be taken care of—not so that nursing home workers and others can do with them what they will.
Our Chicago nursing home neglect and abuse lawyers are committed to making sure that our clients obtain justice and fair treatment. We are here to fight for their financial recovery.
6 arrested for greasing elderly at CA nursing home, Newsvine, August 3, 2010
Elders allegedly abused at nursing home, UPI, August 4, 2010
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