>Financial Elder Abuse Caught on Tape

>In October, a trio of thieves took a senior citizen suffering from dementia from store to store and tricked her into opening up credit card accounts. Store surveillance video shows the suspect standing right next to the victim as she fills out credit applications. After the stores granted her thousands of dollars in credit, the suspects went on a spending spree. Family members say what happened in the stores ruined the victim’s life “they got away with more than $10,000 worth of goods and haven’t been caught,” the victim’s brother said.

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Disturbing Elder Abuse Case – “Part of Growing Trend”

>Texas Guardianship Abuse

>Probate courts are supposed to oversee guardians. Yet oversight is erratic and superficial. Absence of constant oversight and no accountability…

Incidents of abuse, neglect and exploitation of incapacitated adults by their guardians have raised a number of controversial issues regarding the courts’ administration and oversight of guardianship’s.

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>’Voices of Truth Today’, Continued

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>’Voices of Truth Today’

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YouTube: Voices of Truth Today, part one

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YouTube: Voices of Truth Today, part two

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YouTube: Voices of Truth Today, part three

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>Save Marcelle

>This video was shot over a few days in 2008,when Marcelle had began to sleep by day. To force her to stay awake, accountant Richard Kaufman ordered that she be denied the recliner she had used all day for years, and that she be kept at the dining table, in a chair she finds quite uncomfortable.

When Mr. Kaufman bought some squeaky birds and a stuffed dog, the aides were supposed to make Marcelle love her new toys. The aides were told that the doctor wanted them to keep Marcelle awake with the squeaky birds. The aides obeyed. Please remember, when you watch the video, that the nurse aides who appear to mistreat Marcelle are not aware they are doing anything awful or cruel. They were told that these were doctor’s orders, and that they had to bother Marcelle a little, in order to help her. They did not know that these were not doctor’s orders, but accountant’s orders.

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SaveMarcelle.com

>Advocate Tom Fields Fights for Elder Rights

>Tom Fields’ father lay dying in a hospital bed in Florida on a morphine drip for cancer.Fields, a Mentor resident, believes that during his final hours his father was the victim of financial elder abuse by people close to him.He said his father’s wishes about his property were altered as a new will was written.”People took advantage of my father and got him to sign a document,” Fields said.”There was no protection against this. A protocol could have stopped that.”Fields is now an independent advocate fighting to get laws passed to protect families in similar situations.

“People took advantage of my father and got him to sign a document,” Fields said.

“There was no protection against this. A protocol could have stopped that.”

Fields is now an independent advocate fighting to get laws passed to protect families in similar situations.

“Nothing here in Ohio holds abusers accountable,” he said. “My main focus is to keep people out of the court system, which is basically taking advantage of people who are victims.”

Fields’ first step was writing the Ohio Department of Aging to ask it to create task forces looking at elder abuse issues and how to prevent them.

He also proposed a step-by-step list of protocols for hospitals to follow to prevent financial abuse.

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Mentor Man Fighting for Elder Rights

>’Lynched by Court Order"

>Today, we revisit “Lynched by Court Order” from 2008…

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YouTube: Lynched by Court Order, Part 3

Janey Cutler – ‘No Regrets’

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Impromptu Performance!

An elderly couple walked into the lobby of the Mayo Clinic for a checkup and spotted a piano. They’ve been married for 62 years and he’ll be 90 this year. Check out this impromptu performance. We are only as old as we feel, it’s all attitude.

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>Senior Care Placement Companies Scramble to Cash In

>For the elderly, it happens unexpectedly and all too often: They suffer a stroke or break a hip and find themselves unable to live safely in their home. Suddenly, their family must scramble to find them care and a new place to stay.

Dozens of private agencies in Washington state promise to guide families through the labyrinth of options to an adult family home or assisted-living facility that best fits their needs — all for free.

But behind these free offers can lurk a hidden cost.

Placement companies, which rely on commission-only sales people, funnel the aged only to facilities that have agreed to pay thousands of dollars in finders’ fees.

In addition, most placement companies do not screen homes for past violations. As a result, many have referred seniors to facilities with documented histories of substandard care, including fatal neglect.

In 143 cases over the past three years, seniors were victimized after companies placed them in adult family homes, or other long-term- care facilities, that had a record of serious violations, a Times analysis of Department of Social and Health Services documents reveals. The documents did not identify placement companies by name.

Full Article and Source:
Senior Care Placement Companies Scramble to Cash In

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