Sidney G. was admitted to a nursing home in South Florida by his loving family of two children, three grandchildren, and three great grandchildren at the age of 69. The negligent nursing home was well aware of his condition of dementia and assessed him at being “high risk” for falls. The staff still failed to provide Mr. G., along with many other patients, proper preventive fall measures such as bedside alarms and mats. While under the care of the South Florida nursing home, Mr. G. sustained 30 falls, a number that even the home couldn’t deny as “excessive”. Mr. G. also repeatedly entangled himself in the privacy curtain beside his bed. The Assistant Activites Coordinator deemed these repeated entanglements “dangerous or potentially dangerous”, again failing to take preventive measures.
A year after being admitted to the nursing home, Mr. G. became tangled in his bedside curtain for the last time and died of mechanical asphyxia. Had simple measures to prevent such accidents, such as an alarm, many lives such as Mr. G.’s would surely have been spared.
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