Fatal Neglect Nursing Home Analysis

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Nursing homes are supposed to be places of care and comfort; however, they have become death traps to many of their patients due to neglect and abuse. Many patients are abused physically, emotionally, financially, and even sexually. The article, “Fatal Neglect” written by Mark Thompson and James L. Graff, discusses these horrible issues. Numerous patients are dying from a lack of personal hygiene, food, water, and medicine. Several nursing homes are understaffed; therefore, the patients who need to be fed are left to feed themselves, which they do not do or cannot do. According to Thompson and Graff, countless trays go back to the cafeteria untouched. Patients are left for more than four hours restrained in their wheelchairs with no meaningful