Nursing Home Abuse & Elder Abuse Attorney in Austin, Texas

Denise Okafor has spent 14 years fighting for nursing home residents and their families across Texas, where a large and growing elderly population creates significant demand for quality elder abuse litigation. Her public health background informs her systemic approach to nursing home cases — she investigates not just individual failures but facility-wide patterns of understaffing, inadequate training, and corporate cost-cutting that create conditions for resident harm. Denise is particularly adept at using CMS payroll-based journal staffing data, survey deficiency reports, and corporate financial records to demonstrate that understaffing was a deliberate business decision rather than an isolated oversight — a framework that supports punitive damage claims. She has obtained verdicts and settlements totaling over $60 million for Texas nursing home residents and their families, including multiple seven-figure wrongful death recoveries.