ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER The Changing Rout of the Elder Justice Roadmap Last week, California became the 6th state in the U.S. to implement a law allowing terminally ill patients to take their own lives. The process of...
Category: Elder Abuse Law
ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Opiods and Elder Abuse The opioid epidemic in America has brought about profound changes in many aspects of healthcare, the justice system, law enforcement, and mental health. As professionals from these...
ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Legal Issues Surrounding an Aging Population Many of the major shifts in American society in the last half century can be attributed, directly or indirectly, to the baby boomer generation. It’s been...
Elder Abusers in Posing as County Employees in California
December 15, 2015
ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Two women were arrested by the police on suspicion of elder abuse, specifically to have misrepresented themselves as employees of Placer County Health and Human Services to an 89 year old person. They...
Oxycodon’t: Health Care, Malpractice and the Pill Mill
December 6, 2015
ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Healthcare fraud is often a fairly technical area of law: large companies misusing funds, fraudulently billing Medicare or Medi-Cal, or improperly treating patients not in need of expensive procedures....