A Nursing Home Resident’s Rights: Ensuring You Get The Care You Deserve
The transition to life in a nursing home can be a difficult one, both for the nursing home resident and for his or her family members. It means leaving behind the familiar comforts of home and adjusting to life in a new and unfamiliar environment. It requires a level of involvement and communication with medical professionals and nursing home staff members and administrators that may seem daunting, at least initially.
It is hard to know what to expect, and many residents – not to mention their loved ones – are concerned about the level of care they will receive in a nursing home.
What you might not realize is that entering a nursing home does not mean leaving behind the constitutional and civil rights you enjoyed when you lived independently. In fact, nursing home residents have additional, clearly defined rights.
