Can I Sue a Nursing Home if They Didn’t Provide Adequate Hydration for My Mom Who Had Alzheimers and Died?
Monday, May 31st, 2010 at
7:31 am
mbasey46 asked:
Some say she would have died eventually, anyway, but doesn’t everyone?
Tagged with: Alzheimers • Mom • Nursing Home
Filed under: Alzheimers
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Yes. People sue on flimsier grounds than that. Especially if it was a possible cause of death, but even if it wasn’t.
Hell yes you can
she would have died eventually, anyway, but doesn’t everyone
you pay the provider for a specifcly regulated quality of care and if they negelct or ne thing else other than obove expected they are at fault and yes you can sue them
I’m sorry to hear of your mom’s passing. You will need to prove the dehydration had a hand in the cause of death, or be able to convince a jury it did.
You certainly can. What you have here is from what you describe, a case of Medical malpractice and Wrongful Death if the failure to provide the hydration to your mom hastened her death. What you have to show is Proximate cause. What that means is you have to prove that as a Plaintiff , the failure to provide adequate hydration was a substantial factor in bringing about your mother’s death. Using the But for test, you would reason that But For the failure or omission to provide adequate hydration to your mom, she would not have died when she died. This is Tort law and could also result in a criminal prosecution for homicide if it can be shown that they intentionally omitted giving your late mother the hydration she needed and since there is a special relationship of dependency there between your mom the the nursing home , if they omitted to properly care for her which resulted in her death , that may be a case of homicide. Hope that helps.
How do YOU know that they didn’t provide adequate hydration? Can you prove this?
Sure. Your lawyer can beat up their lawyer.