Social media continues to cause issues for nursing home patients as employees share personal photos of bathing online. Many of the videos include mocking the patients while they are nude or partially nude. This adds to the types of abuse nursing home patients suffer.
“These people, our older generation, have served, whether they were a vet or not, they have served in our communities and in our society. Look what you’re doing to them, look how you’re treating them. It’s taking advantage of the weak and it’s sick,” said the family member of an abused patient.
According to one report on elder abuse, statistics show that 7-10 percent of patients experience abuse in nursing homes and assisted living facilities. And, of those patients that do, they have a 300 percent higher death rate than patients who do not experience abuse. Concerns of abuse rise as social media becomes another medium for patients to experience abuse. For more, read the story.
