Are you talking about abuse by the staff?
It usually occurred at night. It was more neglect than violence, at least as far as what I saw.
During the day everything was neat and orderly, patients were attended to properly. Mostly because visitors or family members came and went regularly.
However at night, patients calls went unheeded. some moaned or screamed all night. Sometimes the odor of old urine and feces filled the air in the hallway and into my room.
One night I asked a nurse about one lady down the hall about her crying and pleads for help for over two hours and why nobody helped her. She said she only waited “attention.” Unable to ignore her crys and despite my condition, being attached to several I.V's and on crutches(I could barely stand by myself)I dragged my I.V pole and made my way down the hall, leaning against the wall to rest occasionally until I reched the room where the crying emitted and before I peered in the door the stench was so strong it almost choked me.
The old woman who had a stroke or something left her in a childlike state, had been left sitting in a visitor's chair and she had “relieved” herself. A brown liquid drained down her legs and puddled at her feet.
I got back into my room and repeatedly hit my buzzer until a nurse arrived. I told the "nurse' about what I witnessed and said she needed to be cleaned up. She told me, in a huffy tone, it was none of my concern and they were “busy” that night. They were “busy” laughing and having a grand old time joking at the nurse's station.
This went on almost every night I was there. To this day I feel ashamed I didn't get up and investigate earlier. I hope to G_d that if I was in that condition somebody else would answer my calls for help alot sooner than I did..
I'll never go back to a nursing nor will I ever send any of my loved ones to one.