Category: Caregiver Fraud

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER True Link Financial, a California-based company that provides assistance and tools to seniors and their families to prevent elder abuse, released a 2015 report estimating that financial elder abuse costs senior citizens $36.48 billion per year. The report found that “criminal fraud” such as telephone scams, identity theft, […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Several recent high-profile stories show that elder abuse between family members is a current and widespread issue, according to San Francisco physical elder abuse lawyers. According to the National Institute of Justice, one in ten seniors would be a victim of abuse every year. Caregiving can become a […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER The State of California recently modified the former definition of “undue influence” in the Welfare and Institutions Code. Before 2014, in order to prove undue influence, a special relationship between the victim and the perpetrator had to be demonstrated. Now, the evidence that someone’s free will has been […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Santa Clara County elder abuse lawyers say that the recent death of an 82-year-old woman was ruled a homicide by neglect, after she died in her home when her caregivers allowed her to sit in the same chair without moving for six months. The woman, Barbara Beam, died […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER If you or someone you know has reached a point where independent living is no longer feasible, you may need to start looking at alternative living options. If there is someone around to help the elder or senior at night, there are adult day care centers which provide […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER A 99-year-old elderly stroke victim was the unfortunate victim of elder abuse by her two nurses that should have been taking care of her. Instead, these two nurses engaged in inappropriate sexual conduct with one another – while in the victim’s bedroom.  Footage of their inappropriate conduct was […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Many elders fall victim to fraud through trickery and deceit. However, studies show that aging hampers decision-making abilities due to mental impairment, resulting in a lack of capacity to detect fraud. How do we make decisions? We rely on the part of our brain known as the ventromedial […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER A senior disabled woman has alleged that her caregiver committed abuse. The victim claims that the caregiver she hired made her life miserable. The victim in this case is a 69 year-old woman who had a knee replacement last year and also has fibromyalgia. Since fibromyalgia is a […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER On February 15, 2014 a 74 year-old dementia patient went missing from an assisted living facility in California.  Police asked for the help of the public in locating the man.  Approximately one week later the body of the man was discovered.  Unfortunately, it is not uncommon for patients […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Caregivers for the elderly are sometimes abusive.  Doctors who work for Adult Protective Services have seen many cases of abuse and neglect.  According to the 1985 Elder Abuse Prevention, Identification and Treatment Act, abuse is defined as “willful infliction of injury, unreasonable confinement, intimidation or cruel punishment with […]