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From NASGA's Victim's Page: Louise Zahn, Wisconsin Victim
Imagine that you were the live-in caregiver of your Mother for 13 years. Then Mom falls and breaks her femur bone and the Easter Seals Guardianship creates the following document to which you become...
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Need Help Caring for a Loved One? Here Are Tips for Finding a Professional...
Baby Boomers wear many hats: they're parents, workers, activists, enthusiasts, community organizers, and so forth. These are roles that Boomers have chosen. But there's a new role that they may not...
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Popular blood thinner causing deaths, injuries in nursing homes
Lorna Finch lost her father, Loren Peters, right, when staff at his nursing home did not oversee his Coumadin correctly, regulators found. Her mother, Arleta Peters, left, died three weeks afterward....
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Sparks Fly at First Nevada State Guardianship Commission Meeting
Fireworks today at the first meeting of the State's Guardianship Commission.The newly-created panel was formed to help fix a broken system first exposed by Chief Investigator Darcy Spears. Contact 13...
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White House Conference On Aging 2015: Elder Justice
As you likely sadly know, elder financial abuse is a tragic problem in America. As Richard Cordray, director of the federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau said at the Elder Justice in the...
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Former county judge, lawyer sentenced on bribery charges
Angus McGinty (right) outside federal court Wednesday (Photo: Matthew Craig)SAN ANTONIO -- A former state district judge and an attorney were both sentenced to prison Wednesday as part of a federal...
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Ex-official: guardianship system 'isn't that bad'
Elizabeth Diana Indig reactsBy Colton LochheadLas Vegas Review-JournalClark County‘s guardianship system, which has left thousands of elderly and mentally incompetent residents vulnerable to financial...
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Hipaa’s Use as Code of Silence Often Misinterprets the Law
How do people use, misuse or abuse Hipaa, the federal regulations protecting patients’ confidential health information? Let us count the ways: ■ Last month, in a continuing care retirement community in...
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Carthage man to stand trial on three felony counts
A Carthage man waived preliminary hearings this week in Jasper County Circuit Court on charges of financial exploitation of an elderly person, possession of a controlled substance and possession of...
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Groups awarded for elder abuse prevention
FRANKFORT, Ky. (July 16, 2015) — Two community groups have received awards from the Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services (CHFS) to help their efforts to stop elder abuse. Kentucky River...
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Making White House Aging Conference's Ideas Reality
The 2015 White House Conference on Aging (WHCOA) on July 13 was both alike and different from the five previous once-a-decade conferences. It was like them, because it broke new ground. And it was...
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High praise for 'Perry's Law' and may those who prey on the elderly burn in hell
How hot is hell? If the answer is 10,000 degrees Fahrenheit, it's still not hot enough to inflict the deserved level of discomfort on those who prey on the elderly.Perry Bitzel, 82, and a resident of...
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Hidden camera catches abuse at nursing home; two arrested
Two arrested, nine suspended after families install “granny cams” at New Hope facility. Two nursing assistants at a New Hope nursing home have been fired and arrested, and nine others suspended, after...
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Effects of Psychiatric Drugs
These psychiatric drugs are not of small risk but instead cause massive changes in the way the brain functions. Long term studies have indicated that there are severe debilitating and sometimes fatal...
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Tonight on T.S. Radio: Deirdre Gilbert: What does it take to get you on your...
Deirdre Gilbert of the National Medical Malpractice Advocacy Association (NMMAA). www.nmmaa.orgThis issue is particularly important to those of us fighting the abuse and neglect of our elderly,...
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Thorner: White House Conference on Aging abuses elders by ignoring injustice
By Nancy Thorner - Several weeks ago Tom Field, a 25-year advocate of legal reforms for the elderly and for fixing what is a broken elder care system, reached out to me via a phone call from his home...
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Kan. couple sentenced for financial exploitation of disabled daughter
ATCHISON – (June 9, 2015) – An Atchison couple was ordered yesterday to pay restitution related to financial exploitation of their adult disabled daughter according to Kansas Attorney General Derek...
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Steve Miller: Synopsis of First Meeting of Nevada State Guardianship Panel
I attended the first meeting of the commission on Monday on behalf of our family and many other victims. Chief Justice James Hardesty presided and all 25 commissioners were present either in person or...
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Steve Miller: Pictures from The Vegas Voice Seminar on Guardianship Fraud
On Tuesday evening, July 14, The Vegas Voice sponsored a seminar on guardianship fraud at the Anthem Community Center in Henderson, Nevada. Featured speakers included Vegas Voice publisher Dan Roberts,...
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Livermore case puts spotlight on elder abuse
Linda Magel with picture of Jack MagelBy Jeremy ThomasLIVERMORE -- It wasn't until a month after her father died that Linda Magel discovered something awry. Sifting through boxes of bank statements,...
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