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Third Sex Abuse Lawsuit Filed Against Cottage Hospital
Santa Barbara Cottage HospitalA complaint filed last Friday alleges that a Goleta Valley Cottage Hospital nursing assistant sexually abused a disabled male patient and that hospital staff knew about...
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Man charged with kidnapping, forgery, exploitation claimed he was elderly...
SOUTH SALT LAKE – An elderly man was allegedly subjected to months of terror after he allowed a man he described as being homeless move in with him, and a deal to exchange room and board for personal...
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Post investigates: Professional guardian’s lawyer empties man’s home
By John PacentiOne afternoon three years ago, Skender Hoti received an unusual call from a neighbor asking whether he was moving out of his Lake Worth home.Hoti rushed to the house to find a moving...
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Connecticut assisted suicide bill is likely dead.
By Alex SchadenbergInternational Chair - Euthanasia Prevention CoalitionFor the past three years, the assisted suicide lobby in Connecticut has introduced an assisted suicide bill, paid lobbyists to...
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Stabenow seeks HOPE for Alzheimer’s patients, families
SOUTHFIELD – John D. MacInnes put a face to Tuesday’s discussion about Alzheimer’s.The 87-year-old Bloomfield Hills man took his turn, standing and offering comments that earned applause from the...
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Wife Refuses to Give Up on Husband in Coma After Crash - Then He Wakes Up
Matt & Danielle DavisDanielle Josey Davis had been married only seven months when a devastating motorcycle accident left her husband on life support and in a coma.Doctors recommended letting Matt...
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Rana Goodman and the Vegas Voice: How Do Private Guardians Find Their Wards?
My biggest question while getting ready to head for Carson City, and in addressing the guardianship seminars Dan and I have been asked to present is: How do private guardians find their wards? We...
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The Vegas Voice: Guardianship, Part 3: NOW GET RESULTS!
by Dan RobertsHer name is April Parks and she is the “poster child” why the Nevada guardianship laws must be changed. Her M.O. as a private forprofit guardian is to do everything possible in separating...
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Update from NASGA Nevada Legislative Liaison, Rana Goodman
When The Vegas Voice began the series on guardianship we had no idea what a mess we were getting involved with. The lengths some of these people go to, in order to cheat the elderly out of every dollar...
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Clark County’s private guardians may protect — or just steal and abuse
Clark County's private guardians may protect - or just steal and abuseBy COLTON LOCHHEADLAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNALGrow old, alone and infirm in Southern Nevada and Clark County will help take care of...
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Escape was only option for an old soldier trapped in guardian system
By COLTON LOCHHEADLAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNALAPTOS, Calif. — Guadalupe Olvera sits in his tall green chair, blowing a familiar tune on his harmonica as a baseball game plays on his television. The harmony...
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Guardianship problems are widely reported but seldom fixed
Washoe County Family Court Judge David HardyBy COLTON LOCHHEADLAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNALAbuse by court-approved guardians is hardly new. Nor is it exclusive to Nevada or Clark County.“This is a growing...
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Throw Back Thursday! 'Documentary: America's Secret Wealth Exchanges'
NASGA recently received the following comment to an older blog post: As I was interviewing a probate lawyer, he suggested doing a 'court approved sale,' then described how it would be advertised out...
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Courts, Lawmakes Working on Protection for Weakest Citizens
Judge David Hardy By COLTON LOCHHEADLAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNALJudges and lawyers responsible for Clark County’s flawed guardianship system acknowledge they have a problem.They just say they’re powerless...
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Tonight on T.S. Radio: Marti Oakley's special guest is Carole Herman
After a three-year uphill battle with apathetic officials, files that mysteriously disappeared, several closures of her Aunt’s case with no action, and a pattern of stonewalling by state agencies...
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Bank teller sentenced for theft
SUMMERSIDE — A former city bank employee has been sentenced for stealing thousands of dollars from sick and elderly clients. Heather Sue Morrison, 56, of Sherbrooke was sentenced Tuesday to three...
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Half the states look at right-to-die legislation
More than a dozen states, plus the District of Columbia, are considering controversial medically assisted death legislation this year.The laws would allow mentally fit, terminally ill patients age 18...
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Steve Miller: Private "Guardian" Jared E. Shafer's Racket Exposed by Nevada's...
For more than a year, Las Vegas Review-Journal investigative reporter Colton Lochhead has been quietly preparing a feature story on the activities of local for-hire guardian Jared E. Shafer, and the...
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'The Age of Dignity: Preparing for the Elder Boom in a Changing America'
The baby boomers are getting older: This year, 4 million people in America will turn 65.In her new book, The Age of Dignity: Preparing for the Elder Boom in a Changing America, author Ai-jen Poo says...
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The Genesis of Incapacity
Probate courts use the magic phrase "incapacitation" to cash in on Guardianships illegally imprisoning 10's of thousands of American citizens each year. This video explains why the term is the password...
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