Category: Elder Abuse California

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Elderly ALS Victim Suffered From Caregiver Accused Of Trying To Strangle Victim Allegedly Flees With $4000 In Stolen Cash Greedy caregivers, intent only on stealing a senior or dependent person’s money or possessions, care little about their health and may abuse or neglect them as part of the […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Elder Abuse Comes In Different Forms Looking For Signs Of Neglect And Abuse Safeguarding Older Loved Ones From Abuse And Neglect Elder abuse can be physical, emotional, financial, and verbal; neglect and abandonment are also forms of elder abuse. The National Council on Aging says up to five million older […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER 78-Year-Old Dies After Being Pushed Resident Of Memory Care Facility Incident Caught On Surveillance Camera Sadly, seniors in assisted care facilities and nursing homes are at risk of abuse and neglect by the very persons paid to care for them.  Stories of intentional abuse of seniors in these […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Alleged Reckless Care Of Hospice Patient Sudden Death From Allegedly Untreated Injuries And Infection Patient Died Of Sepsis and Gangrene Hospice patients, like skilled nursing facility patients, may be at risk of  neglect and abuse due to understaffing, unqualified provides, and an overall lack of oversight and corporate […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Employee Notices Blood On Bed Victim Has No Memory Of Anything Police Use DNA Evidence Statistics show that 20,000 incidents of sexual abuse, assault and rape in nursing homes have been reported to the authorities over the last two decades, and the numbers are increasing year by year. […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Important Appellate Decision For Mandated Reporters Caregiver Malicious Prosecution Suit Overturned No Liability For Reporters One of the most important protections for older and dependent adults under the Elder Abuse and Dependent Adult Civil Protection Act is that certain individuals, referred to as “mandated reporters,” are required by […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER False Claims For Medicaid Payments Alleged Accused Of Inadequate Staffing And No Hot Water Licensing Irregularities Healthcare fraud, including fraud against Medicare and Medicaid, is the biggest kind of fraud perpetrated against the government.  When the targeted patients are elders, such fraud cases may also constitute elder abuse […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Dependent Adult Allegedly Left On Floor For Nine Days Caregiver Indicted For Second Degree Murder Hospital Nursing Supervisor Alerted Police Too frequently, heartbreaking stories of dependent adult and elder abuse appear in the news.  On such story involved the death of a homebound dependent and disabled adult who […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Elderly Victim Suffered From Lou Gehrig’s Disease Caregiver Accused Of Trying To Strangle Victim Allegedly Flees With $4000 In Stolen Cash Stories of elder physical abuse are often very difficult to read.  To make matters even worse for defenseless elderly victims, physical abuse or neglect is often coupled […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Three Elderly Facility Residents Died After Drinking Cleaning Solution Attorney General Weighing Charges Against Facility One Walnut Creek Facility Worker Previously Arrested Rob Bonta, California’s Attorney General may soon decide whether a Bay Area senior living provider will face charges in the poisoning deaths of three seniors who […]