Danny Tate Still Trapped by Conservatorship
By Walter F. Roche Jr.More than five years after finally winning release from a hotly contested conservatorship, singer songwriter Danny Tate has once again gone into bankruptcy in attempt to regain...
View ArticleSEC Investor Advocate to Congress: 'Appropriate Limits' Needed in Elder Fraud...
In FY 2015 report to Congress, Fleming says SEC used funding boost to add 91 exam staffRick FlemingThe Securities and Exchange Commission’s Investor Advocate, Rick Fleming, told lawmakers that he will...
View ArticleNursing home worker charged with exploitation
Pinellas Park, Florida – A worker at a nursing home has been charged with exploiting one of her elderly patients.Suleyka Santos-Nieves, 27, of Pinellas Park, was arrested on New Year’s Eve for...
View ArticleAdult Medical Kidnapping in New York: 1950s Air Force Veteran Held Hostage in...
With a great urgency, Laredo regular is seeking help for his grandfather, Julius Corley, who is still being held at Montefiore Wakefield, New York, illegally.Laredo relates that his grandfather is...
View ArticleDOT fines United $2.75 million for delays and disability-related complaints
On Tuesday the Department of Transportation announced fines totaling $2.75 million against United Airlines for violations related to disability-related complaints in 2014 and long tarmac delays in 2013...
View ArticleElder Abuse Task Force sends General Assembly eight recommendations
NASHVILLE, TN (WJHL) Tennessee legislators will soon consider eight recommendations aimed at preventing elder abuse and responding to it when it occurs.The state’s Elder Abuse Task Force signed off on...
View ArticleMarti Oakley Guests on "Time Out" With Kevin Gallagher
Part 1:YouTube: Time Out: Marti Oakley Elder Abuse 2015-11-20Part 2:YouTube: Time Out: Marti Oakley Elder Abuse 2015-11-20See Also:NASGA Victims Page: Gary E. HarveyHelp Bring Gary Home
View ArticleIs taking fees before a judge approves them legal?
The attorney for professional guardian Elizabeth Savitt — the wife of a Palm Beach County circuit judge — claims her client is well within her legal rights to take money out of the accounts of seniors...
View ArticleEx-Broward judge Watson won't get job back
Former Broward Circuit Judge Laura Watson won't be getting her job back.Watson, who was removed from office seven months ago, had appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court in a last-ditch effort to hang onto...
View ArticleCommunity Care Licensing "Confounded" by Elder Abuse
Elder rights advocates testified to failures of Community Care Licensing (CCL), a Division of California's Department of Social Services (DSS). Testimony addressed CCL's failure to intervene in crimes...
View ArticleDesign Thinking Can Help Improve Care for the Elderly
By 2050, the number of Americans over age 65 will more than double. Our current health care system is ill equipped to accommodate their growing needs. The challenge for health providers, payers,...
View ArticleWoman Arrested For Stealing Jewelry From Hospice Patients
December 28, 2015By Tamas Mondovics The news of the arrest of a pair of healthcare workers in Ruskin, who robbed the elderly patients they cared for last summer, was much welcomed. Experts in the field...
View ArticleCare workers jailed after patient dies in home
Lily CampbellTwo care workers have been jailed after lying to police about the death of a pensioner with dementia. 89 year old Lily Campbell was left dying at the Laburnum Court care home in Salford...
View ArticleMDH report highlights senior care drug diversions
Drug diversions in health care facilities accounted for about 20 percent of the 141 substantiated allegations of abuse, neglect, or financial exploitation of vulnerable adults between July 2013 and...
View ArticleCJD Finds Ex-Traffic Court Judge Broke Conduct Rules
The Court of Judicial Discipline has found the ex-administrative judge of the Philadelphia Traffic Court, Michael Sullivan, brought the judiciary into disrepute with his role in a ticket-fixing scheme...
View ArticleCops Bring Month’s Worth of Groceries to Old Man Who Phoned 911 Hungry
Police officers went above and beyond their duty to help an elderly, disabled man who hadn’t eaten in two days.The 79-year-old called the Mount Pleasant Tennessee Police Department as a last resort...
View ArticleTonight on T.S. Radio: Nancy Madore, Author of "The Ethics of Judge Nadeau"
Hosted by Marti Oakley & Debbie DahmerGuest: Nancy Madore author, The Ethics of Judge Nadeau The Ethics of Judge Nadeau is the TRUE story of a judge who presides over York County Probate Court in...
View ArticleFinancial exploitation cases burden seniors, Indiana
In a matter of months, a caregiver wiped out an Indy woman’s savings.Julie Lagos Julie Lagos swiped an Indianapolis woman’s credit cards to pay for tattoos, body piercings, a 60-inch TV, furniture...
View ArticleSteve Miller: Jared Shafer Victim Jason Hanson to Testify Friday at...
Jason Hanson, 26 year old cerebral palsy victim of private professional guardian Jared E. Shafer, will testify this Friday before the Nevada Supreme Court Guardianship Commission.Hanson will tell the...
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