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Update: Bunny and Claflin Garst
In July 2013, the Herald-Tribune told the story of former Manatee County judge Claflin Garst Jr. and his wife of more than 30 years, Bunny.When her husband’s judgment in money matters appeared to her...
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Elder guardianship: Between a rock and a hard place
Julie Ferguson & Marise LondonJulie Ferguson wishes now she had never made the first phone call.It was in the autumn of 2010, after she noticed strange notes by the phone at her mother’s house on...
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1,600 investigations of Colo. elder abuse stem from new law
For the first time, authorities have some idea of the extent of elder abuse in Colorado.On July 1st, a new law went into effect mandating that people in a wide array of professions report any suspect...
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Former Public Guardian, Metro in Court Faceoff
By Walter F. Roche JrDavidson's former Public Guardian, Jeanan Stuart, and lawyers for Metro are battling each other in a suit brought by a woman who was placed in a conservatorship without her...
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Delusional? Discipline Hearing Begins for Suspended Detroit Judge Brenda...
Judge Brenda SandersThe sad disciplinary hearings for suspended Detroit 36th District Judge Brenda Sanders began Monday in Pontiac. She's accused of judicial misconduct and of being...
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Next of Kin Gives no Standing in Florida Guardianship Proceedings
Based on a recent appellate decision from Florida, "standing" in some guardianship matters has been severely curtailed to those persons with a direct interest in the proceedings. Being next of kin,...
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North Carolina man scares off thieves with gun on walker
GASTONIA, N.C. -- A 68-year-old Gastonia man says he scared off two men in ski masks trying to break in his home with his gun he can keep on his walker. And then he taped a note to his door saying if...
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Former nurse is charged
Labarbara Deshay CurrinFLORENCE — A former nurse at a local health care provider for the elderly has been arrested and charged with the abuse of a 96-year-old woman.Florence police Sgt. Cliff...
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Can a Wife With Dementia Say Yes to Sex?
Donna Lou Young and Henry V. RayhonsMore than 350 people attended the wedding reception of Donna Lou Young and Henry V. Rayhons in Duncan, Iowa, on Dec. 15, 2007. Family and friends ate pork roast and...
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Woman pleads guilty to financial exploitation
A former area resident accused of spending more than $100,000 of someone else's money has pleaded guilty to felony financial exploitation of a vulnerable adult.In exchange, the court dismissed an...
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Linda Kincaid Reports: Court appointed attorney may have investigated sexual...
Linda KincaidDocuments filed with San Bernardino County Court indicate a court appointed attorney may have investigated elder abuse and sexual assault of an elderly woman at the wrong long-term care...
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Nursing Homes Rarely Penalized For Oversedating Patients
Antipsychotic drugs have helped many people with serious mental illnesses like schizophrenia or bipolar disorder. But for older people with Alzheimer's or other forms of dementia, they can be deadly....
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Alzheimer's patient with open wounds found suffering in blood, filth, police...
A Volusia County man was arrested Monday after his 82-year-old mother was found with open wounds, exposed bones and insects in a bed covered in blood and human waste.Jeffrey Andrews, 44, told officers...
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This Nursing Home Calms Troubling Behavior Without Risky Drugs
Marian Grunwald (from left), Earl Elfstrom and Verna Matheson bounced a balloon back and forth with nursing assistant Rick Pavlisich on Dec. 13, 2013, at an Ecumen nursing home in Chisago City, Minn....
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Alaska Supreme Court disbars Palmer attorney for taking dead client's money
The office of Palmer attorney Melinda Miles on Friday afternoon. The Alaska Supreme Court disbarred Miles on Friday over claims she misappropriated a deceased client's funds. Zaz Hollander / Alaska...
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Bank employees help catch suspected scammer
William E. RileyQuick thinking by employees at a pair of Regions Bank locations led to the arrest of a Hannibal, Missouri, man accused of scamming older adults in two Southeast Missouri...
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Muncie judge accused of abusing her powers, faces 13 misconduct charges
MUNCIE, Ind (Dec. 11, 2014)–The Judicial Qualifications Commission filed 13 charges of misconduct against a Muncie City Court judge. Judge Dianna Bennington is accused of abusing her judicial power and...
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Another ward speaks out after spending nine years in Florida's professional...
The I-Team has been exposing issues with Florida's professional guardianship system for more than a year, leading to changes in the law and helping one man get his freedom back. Now another ward is...
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Eleven Texas lawyers & four judges disciplined
Disciplinary Actions — December 2014 State Bar list (verbatim from the State Bar of Texas)General questions regarding attorney discipline should be directed to the Chief Disciplinary Counsel’s Office,...
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Death in Bronx Shows Vulnerability of State’s Nursing Home Residents
University Nursing Home in the Bronx is part of a large consortium of rehabilitation and home health companies called Centers Health Care.Credit Edwin J. Torres for The New York Times Unable to see...
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