Judicial Watchdog Seeks Discipline of Mississippi Judge Joe Dale Walker
The Mississippi Supreme Court has suspended Chancery Judge Joe Dale Walker with pay while waits to hear the results of an inquiry by the Commission on Judicial Performance Commission.Walker sits on the...
View ArticleA National Outrage: Father of 15-Year-Old at Center of Boston Children's...
Lou Pelletier says his family is a “wreck” after a judge ruled Monday that his daughter, 15-year-old Justina Pelletier, will be placed into foster care for the time being.“We’re fighting corruption....
View ArticleAlaska Family Living In ‘Nightmare’ After Son Declared Ward of State...
An Alaska family says they are living in a “nightmare” after their son’s visit to an Anchorage hospital morphed into a custody battle that stripped them of their right to visit their child. In an...
View ArticleIowa Senate Approves Bill to Strengthen Power of Attorney for Seniors
The Iowa Senate on Monday approved a bill designed to strengthen the state's power of attorney laws, changes that AARP Iowa said would help combat the increasing problem of financial abuse of seniors....
View ArticleFlorida Advocates Say Senate Nursing Home Bill Benefits Industry and Trial...
A Senate committee Tuesday gave swift approval to a bill that is being criticized by elder-care advocates as a “sweetheart deal” designed to help nursing homes and trial lawyers make money but do...
View ArticleElderly Texas Man Sent to Nursing Home Pushes to Leave
An 85-year-old North Texas man said he couldn't get out of a local hospital on Wednesday. Instead of going home, he ended up in a nursing home.Charlie Fink called FOX 4 for help Wednesday after he went...
View Article78-Year-Old Man Wakes Up in Body Bag at Miss. Funeral Home
Workers at a Mississippi funeral home say they found a man alive and kicking when they opened a body bag. Holmes County Coroner Dexter Howard calls it a miracle that 78-year-old Walter Williams is...
View Article"The Legal Handbook for Tennessee Seniors"
The Tennessee Bar Association released "The Legal Handbook for Tennessee Seniors." It is a new resource designed to help Tennesseans better understand federal and state benefits, new health care laws,...
View ArticlePetition: Release Rod MacDonald From VA Home
My Dad has been warehoused in this state run facility over an hour from his home in Rockford, by his wife, who is 22 years younger than him. After begging his daughter to be released, she was told by...
View ArticleAmerican Idol Finalist LaKisha Jones Could be Jailed for not Paying Flint...
"American Idol" finalist and Flint native LaKisha Jones could face jail time for failing to pay her father's nursing home bills after she was named his legal guardian, a judge ruled.Jones, a Flint...
View ArticleFirst National Symposium on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide
The First National Symposium on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide is May 2 - 3, 2014 in Minneapolis Minnesota. • Learn how to oppose the legalization of assisted suicide. • Learn how Stealth Euthanasia...
View ArticlePope Francis' Statement on Euthanasia
The following is part of the statement by Pope Francis to the General Assembly of the Pontifical Academy for Life (February 19, 2014)"..It is a topic that is extremely relevant to our own day, and...
View ArticleMinnesota Woman Wants New State Law to Hold Doctors Accountable
Sheila Van Pelt might not get the answers she has been looking for, but she wants independent investigations into doctors and nurses and she wants the results made public.Her mother, Sheila Pietig,...
View ArticleFrom the NASGA Archives...
From the NASGA archives...this article ran in September 20, 1995 and features comments from Joe Roubicek, expert on the subject of financial abuse of the elderly, and author of the book "Financial...
View ArticleThe National Will Registry
Do you know where your will is? Does your family? The National Will Registry, a service offered by Family Archival Solutions, Inc., is a new service that stores the location of important end-of-life...
View ArticleNebraska Senators Look to Establish State Office of Public Guardian
State officials have initiated a new bill that will establish a Nebraska Office of Public Guardian. Nebraska is the only state in the union that does not have an Office for Public Guardianship....
View ArticleAG Schneiderman Announces Arrests Of Suffolk County Nursing Home Employees...
Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman today announced the arrests of nine employees of the Medford Multicare Center for Living, Inc. in Medford, New York. Seven of the arrests are in connection with...
View ArticleAlive Inside: A Story of Music & Memory
As dementia continues to affect millions of elderly Americans, Alive Inside: A Story of Music & Memory reveals a remarkable, music-based breakthrough that has already transformed lives. Spearheaded...
View ArticleThe Jason Hanson - Jared E. Shafer Story: "Special Administrator" Jared E....
The word sociopath is a noun meaning: Someone whose social behavior is extremely abnormal. Sociopaths are interested only in their personal needs and desires, without concern for the effects of their...
View ArticleConvicted Rapists Among Sweden's Legal Guardians
Convicted rapists and fraudsters have managed to become legal guardians for people with disabilities in Sweden, a new review showed on Wednesday. Sveriges Television (SVT) revealed that a review of...
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