Adult Care Articles

Sexual violence transcends age and organizational settings. It can occur with young children, older children, individuals with disabilities, and with elderly adults. Studies suggest that 12-40 percent of females and 4 to 16.5 percent of males in the United States have experienced at least one instance of sexual abuse in childhood or adolescence.

According to the Pennsylvania Coalition Against Rape, 18% of women raped each year are 60 or older. Within this age group 2.4% were assaulted in adult care residences and 70.7% were assaulted in nursing homes.

This article will focus upon the sexual abuse that occurs within organizational facilities that serve children, individuals with disabilities and the elderly populations. These are populations of individuals who are vulnerable, and may have limitations that prevent them from consenting to sexual acts and reliably communicating and/or reporting the assault and abuse.

Hospital beds are designed and constructed to provide safety, comfort, and mobility for a broad range of patients with varying conditions and treatment plans. While the adaptability and versatility of hospital beds and related safety devices allow caregivers to meet the diverse needs of their patients; care must be taken to ensure necessary user training, inspection protocols, and routine maintenance and safety checks are followed.

Falls are the most common type of incident associated with hospital beds, however pressure injuries and entrapments are also notable safety concerns. In this article, Christian Mongrain, Doctor of Physical Therapy and Durable Medical Equipment Expert, provides an overview of hospital bed injuries and proper safety.

In this article, the supervision, health care, and education experts at Robson Forensic provide an overview on the standard of care for providing food and fluid to individuals with dietary restrictions.

In this article, the health care experts discuss nursing home neglect. The purpose of this article is to define neglect and its key components, explain the responsibility for a facility to investigate neglect once it has been reported, and to provide insight on how these investigations are approached from a forensic standpoint.

In this article, the health care experts discuss the process by which adverse medical events are evaluated by medical professionals and forensic experts. The article describes the concept of an adverse event and provides two models that are used to evaluate the quality of care and preventability of a specific incident.

The experts at Robson Forensic are frequently retained to investigate adverse events within health care and other managed care settings. Our experts approach these investigations from the perspectives of nurses, physical therapists, and other direct care professionals. We also have experts who specialize in the operations and administration of nursing homes, hospitals, and managed care facilities.

In this article, supervised care expert, Dr. Lisa Thorsen broadly discusses Plans of Care as they apply across a range of supervised care environments. The experts at Robson Forensic are regularly retained to evaluate the quality of care provided to individuals within educational, health care, and group living environments.

In this article, forensic document examiner, Mark Songer discusses the role of document analysis in elder care disputes. He provides relevant data on the scope of the problem and outlines his involvement in two such cases.

In this article, supervised care expert, Lisa A. Thorsen, Ed.D., C.R.C., C.P.S.I., introduces the framework by which organizations establish the policies and procedures to stem sexual abuse.