Senior Crisis

Here are just a few things that trial attorneys have helped accomplish for seniors. If you don't exercise your rights, you will lose them. If you don't stand up for your rights when people want to take them, you will lose them. Did you know that, on average across the Nation, seniors receive a lower quality of care and are more likely to be victims of negligence than other age groups because they are less likely to bring suit against the health care provider, or nursing home or whomever injures them than younger people.

Below, you will find 8 different areas that cause senior citizens harm. There is widespread abuse of seniors and seniors fall prey to many different unscrupulous people. Some of the things that are done to them are shocking. It frightens me to think about these things knowing that, inevitably, I will be in their shoes one day.

However, I am proud to be part of the profession of trial attorneys who have stepped in to help and done the following:

1. Saved seniors from unneccessary psychotropic drugs that are administered only to "keep them under control";
2. Responded to the over 500 reported strangulation deaths do to poorly designed bedrails and, because of that, the standards have improved - but there is still work to do;
3. Long Term Care Insurers have systematically denied coverage betting that the senior who has it will not complain or will not live long enough to see the complaint through - trial attorneys have smoked out this deception and secured senior's rights.
4. There are over 1.5 million cases of senior abuse each year. Trial Attorneys are seniors best and often only ally. But, we have a long way to go - it is estimated that for every reported case there are five unreported cases.
5. Trial Attorneys have helped seniors recover money they lost in scams.
6. I have worked with several seniors recovering money lost due to unscrupulous investment advisors who sold them inappropriate investments like aggressive stock funds and annuities.
7. While seniors represent only 14% of the population, they suffer 34% of all of the medical negilgence and malpractice injurires - trial attorneys help them recover damages for their injuries.
8. Because of nursing home negligence, many seniors have suffered injuries - trial attorneys help them and help raise the standard in the industry, but there is much left to do.

If you need help, or know a senior who needs help call Attorney Bob Vogel at the Vogel Law Firm 865-357-1949 or email rlvogel@robertvogellaw.com