Adult Home Owners Faulted for Death of Jean Anderson
Neck injury was the reason for the death of Jean Anderson. She was 75 year old. Dalton Anderson, the loving husband of Jean, went to the courts and successfully got a second-degree criminal mistreatment case filed against the owners of the adult home she was staying at.
While, the fault does not directly lie on the owners themselves, they are indirectly to blame for what happened because they hoarded money through hiring unqualified people to staff their adult home. In the past, they even hired a 20 year old whose only prior job experience was as a dishwasher in a fastfood restaurant. He was paid only $7 an hour for the caretaker job.
Jean was not taken care of properly during her stay in the adult home. As her health continued to deteriorate, she began falling down more often, sometimes getting bruises or minor injuries in the process. And yet, nobody seemed to notice. Her husband complained that an incompetent caregiver was put in charge of his wife.
When the court questioned the Balagots, the owners of the adult home, they could not prove the competence of their hired staff. Dalton Anderson eventually won the case in court, and was awarded $300,000. Still, no amount of money in the world can ever replace the life of Jean Anderson.
Adult home owners all over America now have reasons to fix the way they run their homes. They are not only dealing with money here, but with lives— the lives of the elderly— as well. Shame on those who continue to hire untrained staff, and purchase cheap medicines and equipment for the use of their patients!
It is bad enough that they are sent to retirement homes, but should they be stripped of their dignity as well? This is one of the rare cases in which a lawsuit over a fatal neck injury was successful. If something similar happens to you or one of your loved ones, don’t hesitate to contact your neck injury lawyer for help.