ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER When we choose a nursing home to provide for our loved ones, we expect they will be provided compassionate and effective care. Unfortunately, this is too often not the case. Nursing home elder abuse is...
Category: Long-term Care
Napa is the First California County to Require Background Checks for Senior Caregivers
October 25, 2013
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...
Bankers Life & Casualty Insurance Co. is the Target of a Class Action Lawsuit over Long-Term Care Insurance
July 26, 2013
ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Bankers Life & Casualty Insurance Company is accused of denying legitimate claims for long-term care to elderly patients in a federal class action lawsuit filed earlier this year. Bankers Life &...
ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) warns that antipsychotic medications should not be used on elderly people with dementia. Prescribing such drugs to the elderly can hasten death. Yet, medical...