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Nursing homes and assisted-living facilities in Sonoma County and throughout the Bay Area should be places where all residents receive the level and degree of care that meets their needs, and where all potential injury hazards are eliminated or minimized through staff attention to residents. Yet much too frequently, older adults in nursing homes and assisted-living facilities suffer serious and life-threatening injuries in avoidable falls. While falls can have many different causes, an issue that is becoming more common in the conversation about nursing home safety and negligence is the level of lighting in private and community areas. What should you know about lighting levels and nursing home falls? Our Sonoma County nursing home negligence lawyers can tell you more. 

Falls in Nursing Homes Impacting Elderly Residents

Falls in general can be devastating to older adults, much more so than to younger adults who sustain fall-related injuries. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), millions of adults aged 65 and older fall every year, and those falls result in about three million emergency department visits.