My fourth book is finished, and it is the hardest one I have written. Hurt in a Florida Nursing Home: The Family’s Guide to Abuse, Neglect, and Wrongful Death Nobody Hands You is 340 pages, in plain English, for the daughter or son who suspects something is wrong and needs to know what to do tonight, this week, and after.
Every book in this series exists because of an imbalance, and this one is the starkest. The person being hurt usually cannot report what is happening. The chart is written by the same people whose care is in question. The family’s own eyes, visits, and dated notes become the only independent record, and nobody tells families that until it is too late. This book tells you on page one.
What is inside
Twenty-three chapters in six parts: the warning signs that mean tonight and the ones that mean this week, how to report abuse and get your loved one safe, the records race and the preservation letter, the staffing spreadsheet at the root of almost everything, chapters on bedsores, falls, dehydration, medication errors, sepsis, wandering, assault, and financial exploitation, the arbitration trap in the admission papers, the corporate shell game, how these cases are proven, the deadlines, and wrongful death. Plus a warning-signs checklist, a records request list, a choosing-a-facility guide, and a dated visit-log workbook, because in these cases the family’s notebook is evidence.
I worked on the defense side of these cases before I chose to stand with families, so the facility’s playbook chapter is not a guess. And this one is personal: the book is dedicated to my father, Gene Safir, whom we lost to dementia, and to the home health aides who took such good care of him at home before he passed.
Free to Florida families
Like the others, it is free to the people it was written for. Request a copy here: the digital edition arrives the moment you submit, and the paperback follows in the mail. The paperback and Kindle editions are also available on Amazon.
If something in your gut says a loved one is not safe, trust it, and start with the book’s first two chapters tonight. You’re better Safir than sorry.
