Category: Caregiver Fraud

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 […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER There was disagreement between officials from the California Department of Public Health and long-term care advocates at a recent Assembly oversight hearing.  The hearing topic was the regulators’ ability to process and investigate abuse complaints against nursing assistants.  There was a dispute over how many allegations of abuse […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Last month a Castro Valley assisted living facility was shut down by California Social Services.  What happened after the shutdown is cause for alarm.  According to news reports, patients were abandoned by caregivers after the temporary shutdown order.  Two days after the facility was shut down, paramedics responded […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER According to the State Bar of California, one in seven senior citizens across the nation become victims of elder abuse.  Sadly, the abuse is usually perpetrated by a family member.  There are two major categories of elder abuse, physical elder abuse and financial elder abuse.  It doesn’t matter […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER The owner of an elder care facility in Sacramento has been charged with elder abuse and involuntary manslaughter.  The charges stem from the death of a resident at the Super Home Care facility.  The elderly victim in this case was hospitalized in June of 2012 with gaping bedsores.  […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER In California, and many other states across the nation, nearly anyone can become a private caregiver.  Napa County is doing its best to ensure that criminals are not able to become caregivers. Napa is the only California county to require home care providers to apply for and carry […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Physical elder abuse – A Millbrae caregiver will stand trial on assault and physical elder abuse charges.  The caregiver has been accused of beating an elderly Millbrae man on the head and causing serious injuries.  It is alleged that the caregiver hit the elderly man on the head […]

In recent years, a wave of renovation has changed the way our nation’s health care system works. These changes have been implemented with the hope that more people, regardless of financial status, will be able to purchase health insurance and enjoy quality medical care. But elder caregiver fraud attorneys in San Francisco […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER A caregiver has been charged with murder and a special circumstance allegation of murder for financial gain in connection with the presumed death of an 89 year-old senior victim in San Diego.  Gerald Rabourn, the senior victim, disappeared in October of 2010.  His body has never been found, […]