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Assisted Living and RCFE Abuse and Neglect

Assisted living facilities are licensed under the California Residential Care Facilities for the Elderly Act, and an assisted living abuse lawyer holds them to that license when they accept residents they cannot care for.

Families are often told that assisted living is non-medical, so the facility is not responsible for medical problems. That is not the law. Residential care facilities for the elderly are licensed by the California Department of Social Services under Health and Safety Code section 1569 and following and Title 22 regulations. A facility must assess each resident, accept only residents whose needs it can meet, provide supervision matched to those needs, and arrange medical care when a condition changes. When a memory care resident wanders out, a resident with a known fall history is left alone in the shower, or a pressure injury develops without a doctor being called, the facility has failed its license conditions.

What We Investigate

• The facility's license and the level of care it is permitted to provide

• The pre-admission appraisal and whether the resident's needs exceeded it

• Staffing and training

• Medication management

• The facility's reporting of incidents to licensing

• Prior citations in the public licensing file

Related Pages

• Wrongful Death in Long Term Care

• Financial Exploitation