Nursing Home & Elder Abuse

• Nursing Homes: Falls and fall Prevention

  Bruce Bierhans | February 26, 2011 8:32 AM | 0 CommentsEastern Massachusetts, MA

  I presently represent the family of a woman that died in a Massachusetts nursing home after falling 10 times over a 14 month period. That's right; not a typo; 10 times! In nursing homes, 3 out of 4...

• Nursing Homes: Falls and Fall Prevention

  Bruce Bierhans | February 26, 2011 8:30 AM | 0 CommentsCape Cod, MA

  I presently represent the family of a woman that died in a Massachusetts nursing home after falling 10 times over a 14 month period. That's right; not a typo; 10 times! In nursing homes, 3 out of 4...

• Mass. Nursing Home Residents Given Antipsychotic Drugs Not Intended For Them

  Chrissie Cole | March 09, 2010 11:23 AM | 0 CommentsEastern Massachusetts, MA

  Powerful antipsychotic drugs, used for treating mental illnesses such as schizophrenia, are also often used by doctors to treat patients with dementia. These types of drugs put the patient at...

• A Happy Day for a Lawyer and Client in Harwich

  Bruce Bierhans | January 18, 2010 10:45 AM | 0 CommentsEastern Massachusetts, MA

  I am well aware that in the eyes of many people, lawyers reside at the lower end of the food chain. However, for 28 years, I have loved being a lawyer. The reason is that I know that lawyers can...

• A Happy Day for a Lawyer and Client in Harwich

  Bruce Bierhans | January 18, 2010 10:31 AM | 0 CommentsCape Cod, MA

  I am well aware that in the eyes of many people, lawyers reside at the lower end of the food chain. However, for 28 years, I have loved being a lawyer. The reason is that I know that lawyers can...

• When it Comes to Financial Advice, There is no "Free Lunch"

  Bruce Bierhans | December 16, 2009 4:54 PM | 0 CommentsEastern Massachusetts, MA

  I've written here often regarding financial scams being perpetrated upon seniors on Cape Cod and elsewhere. We are still attempting to resolve the Harwich Community Center case I've discussed, and...

• Alert: Spousal Liability for Nursing Home Care in Massachusetts

  Bruce Bierhans | December 11, 2009 2:01 PM | 0 CommentsCape Cod, MA

  A Superior Court judge in Springfield has recently ruled that a widow could be responsible for her deceased husband's nursing home bills...and that her home, in which the husband never had an...

• Alert: Spousal Liability for Nursing Home Care in Massachusetts

  Bruce Bierhans | December 11, 2009 1:59 PM | 0 CommentsEastern Massachusetts, MA

  A Superior Court judge in Springfield, Ma has recently ruled that a widow could be responsible for her deceased husband's nursing home bills...and that her home, in which the husband never had an...

• Reverse Mortgage Abuses

  Bruce Bierhans | October 09, 2009 4:37 PM | 0 CommentsEastern Massachusetts, MA

  What a surprise! An article in todays SanFran Chronicle reports that reverse mortgages have the potential to spawn another subprime-style financial crisis. This, according to a report released by...

• The Crime of the 21st Century? Elder Financial Abuse

  Bruce Bierhans | July 16, 2009 9:33 AM | 0 CommentsCape Cod, MA

  On the heels of our Harwich elder securites fraud case: Fred Joseph, president of the North American Securites Administrators Association has described elder financial abuse as the crime of the...