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Have you or a family member suffered injuries or health complications due to a home health aide’s carelessness or recklessness? When you’ve trusted a home health aide to assist you or a loved one, you deserve to seek justice when an aide negligently harms you. Let a New Jersey home health aide negligence lawyer from The Epstein Law Firm, P.A., advocate for your or your loved one’s rights and interests. Our award-winning team of attorneys has over 120 combined years of experience. As proven litigators, we work hard to obtain maximum results for our clients. Over the years we’ve recovered over $100 million in settlements and verdicts for our clients. 

After you or a loved one has been injured by a negligent home health aide, get the legal help you need to demand accountability and compensation for your harm and loss. Contact The Epstein Law Firm, P.A., for a free initial case evaluation to discuss your legal options with a seasoned home care lawsuit attorney in Rochelle Park, NJ. 

What Do Home Health Aides Do?

A home health aide provides non-clinical care and assistance in the residential setting to a patient with disabilities or impairments. Common duties of a home health aide include:

• Assisting patients with basic needs, including eating, bathing, or using the bathroom
• Helping patients move around the home
• Preventing and monitoring for pressure ulcers
• Ensuring patients remain compliant with their medication regimen
• Maintaining a clean and sanitary home environment
• Reporting adverse changes in a patient’s condition to family members or healthcare providers
• Summoning medical assistance for patients in distress

Home health aides ensure the well-being and safety of patients who may have medical issues or difficulty with daily tasks, enabling patients to continue living at home instead of having to move to a nursing home or assisted living facility. 

What Is Home Health Aide Negligence

Negligent care from a home health aide can cause a patient to suffer various potentially life-threatening injuries, such as broken bones, traumatic brain injuries, or pressure ulcers. Examples of home health aide negligence include:

• Failing to assist a patient with walking around the home, which may lead to a patient with mobility issues falling
• Failing to ensure that a patient has sufficient food and water intake
• Failing to move a patient regularly to prevent the development of pressure ulcers
• Failing to assist a patient with eating or drinking to prevent choking
• Failing to assist a patient with personal hygiene
• Failing to maintain the cleanliness of the patient’s home
• Failing to communicate signs of declining health to a patient’s family or healthcare providers
• Failing to summon medical assistance for a patient in distress
• Failing to monitor patients at risk of wandering

Proving that home health aide negligence has occurred may require evidence such as staffing records, treatment notes, medical records, surveillance footage, or witness testimony. 

Pursuing Compensation for Injuries Caused by Home Health Aide Negligence

When you or a loved one have been injured or suffered health problems because of a home health aide’s negligence, you may have the right to seek financial recovery for losses arising from those injuries or health issues. Compensation in a home health aide negligence case may include:

• Costs of medical treatment and rehabilitation
• Costs of additional long-term care and home health services needed for injuries or disabilities
• Lost income or earning capacity if you or your loved one become disabled from work
• Physical pain and anguish
• Emotional trauma and distress
• Lost quality of life due to disabilities, disfigurement/scarring, or reduced life expectancy

Let a Home Care Lawsuit Attorney in Rochelle Park, NJ, Advocate for Your Right to Financial Recovery and Justice

When you or a family member have been injured due to a home health aide’s negligence, a New Jersey home health aide negligence lawyer from The Epstein Law Firm, P.A., can pursue the compensation and justice you deserve while you or your loved one focus on treating your injuries. Our firm will handle all the details of your legal claim, including:

• Investigating your case and recovering evidence of the home health aide’s fault for your harm
• Documenting your injuries and losses to determine what compensation you may be entitled to recover
• Identifying liable parties, including the home health care company that employed the negligent aide
• Pursuing maximum financial recovery for you, whether by vigorously negotiating for a full settlement or by taking your case to court and trial to demand accountability for your harm and loss

Contact The Epstein Law Firm, P.A., for a Free Claim Evaluation to Speak with a New Jersey Home Health Aide Negligence Lawyer About Your Legal Options

If you or a loved one have suffered harm or medical complications because of a home health aide’s negligence, you may have the right to recover compensation for your medical bills, lost earnings, or pain and suffering. Contact a home care lawsuit attorney in Rochelle Park, NJ, from The Epstein Law Firm, P.A., for a free, no-obligation consultation to discuss how our firm can help you with your injury claim.