You visit on a Saturday, and something is off. The room smells. Your mother is wearing a sweater that belongs to someone else. She is sleepier than she was last week, and nobody can tell you why her medication changed. None of it proves anything, and that is exactly what makes it so hard to…

You visit your mother on a Sunday and notice the bruises she cannot explain, the weight she has lost, and the way she goes quiet when a certain aide walks past. You are not imagining it, and you are not overreacting. If you suspect a loved one is being abused or neglected in a nursing…