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Nursing homes challenge new rule giving residents right to sue
The nursing home industry is fighting back against new rules from the Obama administration that would give patients at federally funded facilities the right to settle disputes in court.Starting Nov....
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An Innovation in Memory Care: Therapy Through Design
What picture comes to your mind when you hear the words “memory care” or “nursing home”? A tiny house facing a golf course? A main street lined with front porches. A place with a courtyard, like this?A...
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Steve Miller: Jason Hanson's Story
This is the recent story of Jason Hanson, the 27 year old cerebral palsy victim whose entire inheritance was stolen by Clark County Family Court appointed "guardians" and attorneys Francis Fine, Dara...
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Guardianship Abuse: the Subject of Political Ads in Nevada
Family members of senior citizens at the center of a controversy surrounding the Nevada guardianship system say their pleas for help to then-attorney general Catherine Cortez Masto, now a U.S. Senate...
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Steve Miller: Why are Jared E. Shafer's Judge Signs Being Removed?
LAS VEGAS - On a recent drive through the Las Vegas valley, I noticed that hundreds of Jared E. Shafer's Signs of Nevada c/o PFSN, Inc. judge signs have just been removed from vacant lots two weeks...
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Steve Miller Interviewed on Freedom's Phoenix Radio About Guardianship Abuse
Steve Miller writes internationally syndicated columns on organized crime and political corruption for Rick Porrello's AmericanMafia.com, The Vegas Voice, and the Canada Free Press.Click to LISTEN to...
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'Let Them Out'
The first in a series of films about people with disabilities needlessly locked away in institutions in the US. #LetThemOut from Jody Santos on Vimeo.Jody Santos is an award-winning journalist, author,...
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Indicted judicial candidate says she wouldn't take bench until ethics case is...
The former staff attorney/law clerk facing an indictment for allegedly impersonating an Illinois judge says she won’t take the bench, if she wins election, until an ethics case against her is resolved....
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Alzheimer's Awareness
The elderly man in his eighties, hurried to his doctor appointment at 8am. He wanted to finish quickly because he must be somewhere by nine.The doctor asked what the next appointment was. He proudly...
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State Drops Move To Usurp Mother As Medical Guardian Of Son In Group Home
Click for VideoThe state has stopped its effort to have a medical guardian appointed for a resident of a state-run group home whose mother is opposed to the sale of the home to private operators.In...
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Missouri judge won't fight 6-month suspension
TROY, Mo. — An eastern Missouri judge will not fight a six-month suspension without pay recommended by the Missouri Commission on Retirement, Removal and Discipline.The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported...
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Protest for the disabled: 200 people roll through the streets
Credit: Christopher EvansAbout 200 people in wheelchairs rolled through the Seaport District to City Hall Plaza to protest nursing home conditions for the disabled yesterday.“We’re here in...
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Hundreds protest electro-shock therapy at Judge Rotenberg Center
CANTON, Mass. - A large protest has ended at a local facility which uses a controversial form of electro-shock therapy.At one point 200 demonstrators, many in wheelchairs, were at the Judge Rotenberg...
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I-Team: Photos Show Nursing Home Patient Left Sitting in Human Waste
Source:I-Team: Photos Show Nursing Home Patient Left Sitting in Human Waste
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Sign the Petition to Let Out People With Disabilities Needlessly Living in...
Adam displays the bruises on his body after being beaten By signing this petition, you will force state agencies to act. Thousands of New Yorkers with disabilities have been shipped across state lines...
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Collins applauds law enforcement action on scams targeting seniors
U.S. Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) lauded the recent announcement that 56 individuals and five India-based call centers had been arrested and indicted for impersonating government officials in scams...
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Candidate’s law license suspended
Rhonda CrawfordBy David ThomasLaw Bulletin staff writerThe state Supreme Court late Monday afternoon suspended the law license of former law clerk and current Cook County judicial candidate Rhonda...
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Ronald Reagan's Alzheimer's Letter: Still Relevant, Still Moving
VIDEO + INSPIRING LETTER:This week 12 years ago, President Ronald W. Reagan hand-wrote this profound message to America, sharing the news of his Alzheimer's diagnosis. His words led the way in breaking...
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Secrets To Helping Your Brain Repair Itself
True or false? “By the time you reach 18 or 20 your brain is fully grown and fixed for life. It’s all downhill after that.” For 400 years this was what “experts” believed. But it’s a view that wasn’t...
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Failing the Frail
October 26, 2016Based on measures used by nursing home experts, Forest Park Health Center – a triangular complex of red brick walls and manicured lawns in Carlisle – was understaffed in 2014.According...
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