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Government would pay seniors to create advanced directives under Senate bill
Medicare beneficiaries would be paid to create advance directives and store them in an easy-access system if a recently proposed Senate bill were to become law. The “Medicare Choices Empowerment and...
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Last-minute change in law lets hospitals drop patients
A few weeks before Terry Gordon died, a court-appointed lawyer paid a visit to the 63-year-old homeless man in his seventh-floor hospital room at Saint Thomas Midtown Hospital."I explained to him that...
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Aid lacking for elderly protective services , experts say
A proposal to add $10 million a year to the state budget for adult protective services would better equip Ohio to fight a growing epidemic of abuse, neglect and financial exploitation of the elderly,...
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How to See Pain when Dementia Blocks Communication
Watch Teepa Snow demonstrate how to detect pain in a person with dementia and how you can help them.This video is an excerpt of "End of Life Care & Letting Go", a 2 hour training DVD for...
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Saying Patients are PVS Allows Courts to Starve Them to Death, What if the...
I have written time and time again about the dangerous and dehumanizing persistent vegetative state (PVS) diagnosis. Actually, we saw in my family’s battle to save my sister, Terri Schiavo, from death...
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Arizona assisted suicide law tightened.
The Arizona Daily Star has reported that:The Arizona House has given final approval to a bill that aims to make it easier to prosecute people who help someone commit suicide.Republican Rep. Justin...
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VfGR: Virginians for Guardianship Reform
Despite high expectations and carefully crafted safeguards, our current system of public guardianship is broken. Procedural and jurisdictional defects compound mismanagement, understaffing, poor...
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From Private Ordeal to National Fight: The Case of Terri Schiavo
Her surname in Italian means “slave,” and is pronounced skee-AH-vo. Grim as it may be, the word could apply to Theresa Marie Schiavo, even with its Americanized pronunciation: SHY-vo. For 15 years,...
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Sen. Mary Jo Wilhelm Column: Protecting Seniors From Abuse & Exploitation
April 24th 2014 Column by Sen. Mary Jo Wilhelm:Across the country, thousands of older Americans face abuse, neglect and exploitation every year. Many of these older victims are particularly vulnerable...
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Attorney discipline: 13 punished in South Florida
The Florida Supreme Court disciplined 13 South Florida attorneys in recent actions brought by the Florida Bar.Of those disciplined, one attorney was disbarred, four suspended, five publicly...
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Hospital discharge law creates gap for patients in need
The ‘expedited limited healthcare fiduciary’ provision tacked onto the changes in conservatorship law is the kind of solution that can become a problem if not monitored closely.It is another example of...
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From the Advocates at GRADE: Texas Sunset Advisory Commission
The Texas Sunset Advisory Commission (the "Sunset Commission") is putting DFPS, APS, CPS and DADS under a microscope, this could result with huge policy and regulatory changes. We urge the general...
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Groups team up to fight crimes against elderly, disabled
Columbus police, advocates for people with disabilities and Central Ohio Crime Stoppers teamed up yesterday to announce an initiative to fight crime against two vulnerable groups.Detective Gerald...
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Family Court Lawyer Sentenced To Prison
WILKES-BARRE — A former family court lawyer in Lackawanna County was sentenced Wednesday morning in federal court in Wilkes-Barre. Danielle Ross was sentenced to 12 months in prison and must pay...
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For Stone Phillips, a Focus on the Home Front
Former network news correspondent Stone Phillips, center, with his parents, Vic and Grace PhillipsOriginally, Stone Phillips told me, he intended to shoot a kind of home movie.His parents, after...
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MUSIC & MEMORY
WASHBURN — A pair of Gouldian finches live inside an aviary at the Northern Lights Nursing Home and sing all day long. Recently 20 residents with dementia who are participating in a program called...
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Commission hears testimony, including from judge, on 2 complaints against...
A Billings lawyer with a track record of disciplinary problems and who is to be publicly censured next week by the Montana Supreme Court faced a state panel on two more misconduct complaints on...
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Elderly Mineral Wells woman fights state for independence
Dallas News | myFOXdfw.comThe State of Texas is trying to get custody of an elderly woman, even though she says she wants to stay in her home. The same thing happened to her sister three years ago,...
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Detroit elderly woman refuses to leave rat-infested home
Maddie McFolley (pictured), who has lived in her Detroit home since 1958 is refusing to move out even though rats have invaded her living space by the droves. The 88-year-old grandmother, who has even...
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Casey Kasem's fans hold vigil outside hospital in honor of his 82 birthday
Fans of Casey Kasem, the host of American Top 40 and the original voice of Shaggy in Scooby-Doo, held a vigil in honor of his 82nd birthday on Sunday outside the hospital where Kasem is receiving...
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