Memphis Nursing Home Financial Abuse

With the advance and complication of technological processes, it is getting easier for nursing home attendants to devise methods to defraud their patients. For this reason, it is important to keep a close eye on a nursing home resident's personal finances and property to make sure these common forms of financial abuse do not happen to him or her:

• Using or stealing a patient's possessions without permission
• Deceiving a resident into signing a financial document
• Cashing a patient's personal checks
• Using a resident's ATM or credit card
• Distant relatives illegally seizing the property of the patient
• Forging a resident's signature
• Providing unnecessary services and charging for them
• Providing substandard care or failing to pay bills despite the availability of financial resources

People with loved ones in Memphis nursing homes should be aware of these common signs of nursing home financial abuse:

• Abrupt modifications in a patient's will
• Sudden changes in a financial account or document
• Signing of contracts without the family's involvement
• The inclusion of extra names on a patient's bank signature card
• Forged signatures
• Unauthorized use of the resident's ATM card
• Changes in banking practices
• Unexplained withdrawals from bank accounts

Residents in nursing homes have often spent their entire lives saving for their retirement and care for when they are unable to work, but this meticulous preparation and peace of mind is ripped away when they become victims of financial abuse. Fortunately, legal recourse is available for victims of financial abuse in Memphis nursing homes. Do not hesitate to fill out a free, no-obligation case review form today and learn more about how you can recover a resident's property and hold accountable the perpetrators of these devious crimes.