Your Legal Duty – Reporting Elder and Dependent Adult Abuse. Presented by the California Department of Justice, Bureau of Medi-Cal Fraud and Elder Abuse
Guardian and Conservator Laws are abuse of the elderly. Their motto is: Isolate, Medicate, take the estate. Seniors should beware, this could happen to you. www.stopguardianabuse.org www.sagenow.org
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www.youtube.com – more videos www.balitangamerica.tv – complete article of the story A care worker has been charged with abusing a 91-year-old woman after her actions were caught on camera. The disturbing footage emerged after the victim’s family noticed bruising on the elderly woman’s face. Carmen Pereira, 52, was arrested after the woman’s relatives showed police the footage from a Skype feed set up to record continuously in the patient’s room in New Jersey, US. The camera had been set up so the family could communicate more easily with the woman who suffers from Alzheimer’s. Pereira had been with the family for 11 years and there had never been any sign there was a problem before, the family has said. “Heartbreaking, it is, to see your own mother abused by a person whom you trusted for so many years,” said her daughter Bernadine Samin, who lives in Virginia. Pereira has been charged with assault and neglect charges, and has been released on bail. The victim’s daughters Ms Samin and Cresencia Obaldo, from Jersey City, said they had allowed police to release the video to raise awareness of this sort of abuse.
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THE LAST TIME I SAW AMAZING 100 YEAR OLD PEGGY ALIVE!! Ever since I found out that Mary Carr-the head of the AMA American Medical Association in Ventura California, was supposed to be her “caretaker-power of attorney” but yet, unconscionably allowed Peggy to be infested by cockroaches, rats and even rat feces in her food! Mary Carr took Peggy’s only comfy chair. She was wallowing in her own filth until a group of concerned citizens got involved to improve her horrible living conditions. When Mary Carr discovered that I was documenting the tragic and willful elder abuse of Peggy Ellen Pallant. Including one time I found her on the floor of her trailer, trapped, freezing and starving to death despite having millions of dollars in the bank that Mary could have used to better her situation. Peggy Ellen Pallant had the funds to live properly but gave away her power of attorney. By signing power of attorney to Mary Carr-which was like signing her death warrant because Mary did nothing to better Peggy’s life-actually taking away her comfy chair as well, despite repeated pleas by us to have it returned. Mary Carr basically forced Peggy to live in horrible rat–cockroach infested conditions with NO healthy food! See for yourself-I can’t make this up. I was shocked when I discovered that Mary Carr was supposed to be helping Peggy not letting her rot. On several occasions she complained that Peggy smelled of feces and she didn’t want her in church-WHY NOT CLEAN HER DIAPER OR HIRE …
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Join the live webcast at CARP.CA on Tuesday, March 15, 1pm for a special report dedicated to the issue of elder abuse in Canada. On the same day that (alleged) elder abusers Kwong Yan, 43, and his wife, Qi Tan, 28, return to court, Elder Abuse: Does Anyone Care? provides deeper insight into the issue with a panel of experts from the advocacy, political and survivor perspective. Hosted by veteran newscaster, Libby Znaimer, the Special Report also features recently discovered elder abuse hidden camera footage and disturbing real life survivor stories. For more information about the webcast, click here: www.carp.ca
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Older Americans are losing .9 billion annually to elder financial abuse, a 12 percent increase from the .6 billion estimated in 2008, according to “The MetLife Study of Elder Financial Abuse: Crimes of Occasion, Desperation, and Predation Against America’s Elders.” Crimes involving strangers made up more than half (51 percent) of reported cases Next were crimes involving family, friends and neighbors as perpetrators (34 percent) Exploitation from the business sector accounted for 12 percent of reported cases. Medicare and Medicaid fraud represented four percent. Robberies and crimes classified as “scams perpetrated by strangers” increased from nine percent to 28 percent from 2008 to 2010. Other major findings from the study, which was produced in collaboration with the National Committee for the Prevention of Elder Abuse (NCPEA) and the Center for Gerontology at Virginia Tech, include: Women were nearly twice as likely to be victims of elder financial abuse as men. Most victims were between the ages of 80 and 89, lived alone and required some help with either healthcare or home maintenance. Nearly 60% of perpetrators were males, mostly between ages 30 and 59. Victims were particularly vulnerable during the holidays when overall dollar losses due to family and friends were higher than any other category.
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Please be careful if you have elderly persons in this hospital. They did not take my father out of bed for 7 months, causing blood clots to develop in his legs The doctors and administration made false allegations against me due to my questioning of their care (or lack thereof). Beware and protect your’ loved ones. My father and mother died nine months apart due to the lack of quality care offered by this hospital. Be it one “final” autopsy report differing greatly from another “final” autopsy report (for the same patient), things ARE NOT DONE PROPERLY at Beaumont Royal Oak!!! Mom and Dad, I love & miss you dearly.
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When authorities arrived, Arnold “Max” Bauer was dehydrated and disoriented, holding a photo of the ship he served on in 1941. He was taken to the VA for medical care.
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This is a video that I mixed together from other videos for a project on Elder Abuse. Credits for the video and audio below. Once again, all I did was mix together the videos of a few other YouTube users and slap some audio on top of it. 99% of the credit goes to them. Check out their channels and the original videos below. Elder Abuse Commercial – youtu.be (Courtesy of bob4851 and Government of Ontario Canada) Senior Abuse Commercial – youtu.be (Courtesy of friendlynicholas and Government of Canada) Elder Abuse Commercial – youtu.be (Courtesy of Downhillheros) Dramatic Piano Theme – youtu.be (Courtesy of spawette) Amazing Dramatic Piano Beat / Orchestra Beat 2 – Finished Version – youtu.be (Courtesy of wesplaysguitargood)
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An elder law attorney, Lisa Salines-Mondello & Tracie Thurston Carrico, a daughter who says her father was abused by a family member, talk about the growing issue of elder abuse both physical & financial.
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Elder abuse happens unfortunately. Justice Brownstone interviews the author of ‘Granny Snatching,’ a lawyer from Victoria, BC, and an elders’ rights advocate.
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Tracey E. Russell
Many years ago, most of us actually lived by the adage, It takes a village to raise a child’ as was coined by the African Ghostwriter but revisited most recently by Hillary Rodham Clinton in her book, It Takes a Village: And Other Lessons Children Teach Us.
Despite our ethnicities, most people grew up with elderly persons truly responsible for playing some vital role in the lives of the children in the home and/or neighboorhood. Our elders weren’t perfect, but who is? The majority of the time, meals were cooked, children were bathed, and the parents didn’t have to worry about childcare expenses. Fewer crimes would occur as people were less apt to break in mid-day on a latch-key child, as we say today, as there was grandma or grandpa sitting near in his/her chair with that ole’ too familiar look and everyone in the neighboorhood knew them.
So, what has changed or greater than that, when was it acceptable to strike, abuse, mistreat, trick, and/or mismanage their hard earned monies? That’s unsure, but it is is clear that adult caregivers, impatient children, rude family members, and salespersons all prey on the elderly.
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Elder abuse occurs not only in nursing homes yet in private settings as well. Each year, more than 2 million vulnerable and older adults are victims of abuse, neglect, and exploitation. Research has shown that older adults who are abused, neglected and exploited are 3x more likely to die within 10years than those who are not. This is absolutely absurd!!!
Families shouldn’t feel lost. There are national entities designed to address this issue. The National Center on Elder Abuse (NCEA), directed by the U.S. Administration on Aging, is committed to helping national, state, and local partners in the field be fully prepared to ensure that older Americans will live with dignity, integrity, independence, and without abuse, neglect, and exploitation. The NCEA is a resource for policy makers, social service and health care practitioners, the justice system, researchers, advocates, and families.
Locally, most states haven’t implemented a specific month designed to address the issue but law enforcement typically are dedicated to respondiing to the call when approached with such a concern. As a professional and parent, I implore you not to give up. As one without a close elder relative, but still having relationships with other elders, I recognize how imperative it is to continue to have such connectedness. Their heritage is irreplaceable. Their knowledge base is unique. Their history is second to known. Finally, their worth should be valued as priceless as well.
Let’s talk and talk, and write and write, and yell and yell. At some point, we can become one step closer to putting this issue at the forefront of our daily communication and remember that those who reared us – our elders – yet deem respect too!
