Newsfeed – Tuesday, November 19, 2013
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ELDER ABUSE NEWSFEED
NATIONAL, The New York Times, November 18, 2013
Watchful eye in nursing homes
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/11/18/watchful-eye-in-nursing-homes/?_r=0
On Nov. 1, propelled by the outcry over the Mayberry case, Oklahoma became the third state — along with New Mexico and Texas — to explicitly permit residents in long-term care facilities to maintain surveillance cameras in their rooms. In the last two years, at least five states have considered similar legislation. Although some states have administrative guidelines for electronic monitoring, most legislative efforts have stalled because of questions about liability and, in particular, privacy rights, raised by facility owners, unions, elder care lawyers and families.
CALIFORNIA, California Healthline, November 19, 2013
Covered Calif. Warns that ACA implementation increases fraud risks
Covered California officials are warning consumers that fraudulent activity related to the Affordable Care Act likely will increase as implementation of the law progresses, HealthyCal reports. Clare Smith, director of the California-based Elder Financial Protection Network, said that "when changes of this scale happen people are more likely to be duped," adding, "Every day a new scheme pops up."
CALIFORNIA (Irwindale), Baldwin Park Patch, November 18, 2013
Former Irwindale police officer sentenced
http://baldwinpark.patch.com/groups/police-and-fire/p/former-irwindale-police-officer-sentenced
A former Irwindale police officer who stole $250,000 in cash from his 84-year-old father was sentenced today to one year in county jail and ordered to repay the money. Dennis Alva, 47, was also sentenced to five years of probation on the grand theft count to which he pleaded no contest.
CALIFORNIA (Irwindale), San Gabriel Valley Tribune, November 15, 2013
Irwindale housing complex seniors protest alleged elder abuse
About a dozen seniors staged a daylong protest on Arrow Highway on Thursday alleging they have been verbally abused and mistreated by the manager of their 26-unit senior housing complex. Residents of the Las Casitas Senior Complex on Ayon Avenue aired several complaints. “You live in fear,” said resident Maggie Guzman, an Irwindale senior commissioner.
CALIFORNIA (Los Angeles), Beverly Hills Patch, November 18, 2013
Casey Kasem family feud escalates
http://beverlyhills.patch.com/groups/police-and-fire/p/casey-kasem-family-feud-escalates
Ahead of Tuesday's scheduled probate court hearing, attorneys for Jean Kasem again attack the motives of her husband's children from his first marriage. Court papers filed Monday by his wife in response to efforts by three of her husband's children by another woman to establish a conservatorship over the 81-year-old deejay.
CALIFORNIA (Vallejo), San Jose Mercury News, November 18, 2013
Brentwood caregiver allegedly abandons elderly man for hours in Vallejo
Vallejo police arrested a Brentwood man early Sunday on the suspicion of abusing an elderly man under his care. Arriving officers saw the man on the ground, unresponsive but breathing. "The man had defecated and urinated himself," police said.
GEORGIA (Savannah-Chatham County), Savannah Morning News – Savannah Now, November 16, 2013
Senior victim to valued friend
http://savannahnow.com/news/2013-11-16/senior-victim-valued-friend#.UoveqMRJOdQ
A retired Wall Street executive who moved to The Landings in 2000 hired a housekeeper and thought he had found a valued friend, the article states. By the time the 88-year-old man caught on, the woman had defrauded him out of more than a quarter of a million dollars, including a four-bedroom home in Pooler and a new Toyota Camry.
IOWA (Des Moines), The Gazette, November 15, 2013
Iowa elder abuse law changes eyed
http://thegazette.com/2013/11/15/iowa-elder-abuse-law-changes-eyed/
State lawmakers are being asked to revamp laws designed to prevent elder abuse into a comprehensive approach that will better combat incidents of abuse, neglect and financial exploitation that experts say are more widespread than reports indicate. Donna Harvey, director of the state Department on Aging, told members of the Legislature’s Elder Abuse Prevention and Intervention Study Committee Thursday that Iowa has laws dealing with dependent abuse but there are gaps and bureaucratic hurdles when problems beset people aged 60 years or older who are living independently yet may be vulnerable.
KANSAS (Cowley County), KWCH Eyewitness News 12, November 14, 2013
Dependent care manager arrested for financial abuse
The manager for an Arkansas City dependent care organization has been arrested in connection to dependent financial abuse. Officers arrested Neagle for three counts of mistreatment of a dependent adult and ten counts of theft. Captain Mark McCaslin said Neagle admitted during a police interview to making personal purchases while using dependent accounts from CCL.
MICHIGAN (Fraser), USA Today, November 15, 2013
Motel owner tied parents to bed, left them in filth
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/11/15/elderly-abuse-neglect/3593695/
The son of an elderly couple found tied to a bed in a suburban Detroit motel, lying in their own feces and urine, was charged Friday with adult abuse. The son admitted to authorities that his parents were rarely bathed and that he had tied them to the bed so they would not leave, police said.
MISSOURI (Creve Coeur), St. Louis Today, November 17, 2013 (Opinion)
Keep your parent safe from scams
An older adult lost about $70,000 — wiring it off to thieves — before employees at a Dierbergs supermarket became concerned and called Creve Coeur police in 2009. The scam started by a call saying he’d won a second prize in the Publishers Clearing House sweepstakes, and he just had to send in some money to cover taxes, fees and insurance, and they’d ship him his winnings.
NEVADA (Las Vegas), News 3, November 18, 2013
Behavioral health company convicted in Medicaid fraud
Unity Family Services Inc., in accord with a negotiated settlement, was convicted today for the felony offense of submission of false Medicaid claims for fraud involving submission of billing to Medicaid for various behavioral health services that were never provided to Medicaid recipients.
OHIO (Coshocton County), Coshocton Tribune, November 17, 2013
Cases of elder abuse are on the rise across Coshocton County
Every month, at least five cases of elderly exploitation, maltreatment or neglect are reported in Coshocton County. In 2012, the local APS office handled 36 cases of senior neglect or abuse, but so far this year, they’ve handled 48 cases, Ann Randles said. Statewide, there were 14,227 reports of abuse, neglect and exploitation of adults age 60 and older from July 2012 through June 2013, according to the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services.
OKLAHOMA (Park Hill, Cherokee County), Muskogee Phoenix, November 16, 2013
Park Hill woman faces elder abuse charges
A Park Hill woman is accused of abusing her mother and is facing felony charges. The Department of Human Services was notified of allegations of caretaker neglect, caretaker abuse, caretaker exploitation, and financial neglect, according to court documents
INTERNATIONAL (United Kingdom), Mail Online, November 18, 2013
Care worker forced can of deodorant into 89-year-old dementia patient’s mouth and sprayed her in the face
A care home worker has been jailed after it was discovered she hit a patient with slippers and forced a can of deodorant into her mouth. Valerie Bell, who sprayed a resident with dementia in the face and called her a 'filthy animal', was sentenced to nine months in prison after she was convicted of four counts of ill-treatment or neglect, relating to two residents at Sutherland Court Care Home, in Fenham.
INTERNATIONAL (Lancashire, United Kingdom), BBC News, November 14, 2013
Hillcroft nursing home staff trial: Accused was ‘model carer’
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lancashire-24950657
A senior staff member accused of abusing residents at a Lancashire nursing home has told a court she was "a model carer". The court previously heard she is accused of abusing six residents - allegedly slapping one and throwing bean bags at others.
ABUSE OF ADULTS WITH DISABILITIES
KENTUCKY (Pulaski County), Courier-journal, November 18, 2013
Three ex-Oakwood employees charged with abuse and neglect
Three former employees at a state-run facility for mentally disabled adults were indicted by a Pulaski County grand jury Monday on charges they persuaded a disabled patient to hit another resident in September while they recorded video of the incident. King is charged with three counts of knowing abuse or neglect of an adult. Burton is charged with two counts of complicity to knowing abuse or neglect of an adult and Ball faces one count of knowing abuse or neglect of an adult.
MICHIGAN (Cadillac), Cadillac News, November 19, 2013
Cadillac man charged with sexually assaulting disabled adults
http://www.cadillacnews.com/news_story/?story_id=1814097&issue=20131116&year=2013
A Cadillac man’s criminal sexual conduct case has been bound over to 28th Circuit Court in Wexford County on charges he allegedly sexually assaulted two mentally disabled adults. The man is charged with taking sexual advantage of a mentally disabled young adult female and a mentally disabled young adult male.
INTERNATIONAL (United Kingdom), BBC News, November 19, 2013
Solicitor ‘defrauded disabled brother and sister’
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-25001517
A severely disabled brother and sister were fraudulently persuaded to sign away the rights to their home by a solicitor, a jury has been told. The solicitor had been recruited by two fraudsters to get the adult children to sign the documents which waived their right of residence to the family home in Wyton in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire in 2008.
RELATED ISSUES
MAINE, MPBN, November 15, 2013
Lawmakers seek financial relief for Maine nursing homes
http://www.mpbn.net/Home/tabid/36/ctl/ViewItem/mid/5347/ItemId/30977/Default.aspx
Maine falls in the lower third of all states when it comes to paying its share of the actual costs of long-term care. A legislative commission charged with reviewing reimbursement, and other issues important to the state's 107 nursing homes, is developing final recommendations that could provide some financial relief.
PENNSYLVANIA (Pittsburgh), Trib LIVE News, November 16, 2013
Pittsburgh police seek help finding missing dementia patient
http://triblive.com/news/adminpage/5084670-74/missing-police-lee#axzz2l84nZwc9
Pittsburgh police are asking for help finding a missing elderly man with dementia. He was last seen Wednesday evening in Homewood, and might appear confused and disoriented.
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Funding Opportunities:
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December 1, 2013
- Applications for noncash support from the Service Grants Program, administered by the Taproot Foundation. Grants consist of technical assistance offered by business professionals in four areas: information technology, leadership development and strategic human resources, marketing, and strategy management. Applicants must be based in the Chicago, Los Angeles, New York City, San Francisco, and Washington metropolitan areas.
- Contact: Allie Hallock, Taproot Foundation, 40 Worth Street, Suite 601, New York, N.Y. 10013; (212) 257-7642; allie@taprootfoundation.org; http://www.taprootfoundation.org/getprobono/get-service-grant
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December 17, 2013
- Letters of intent to apply for grants from the VNA Foundation. Grants will support nonprofit organizations for home and community-based health care and health services that focus on the needs of disadvantaged people in the metropolitan Chicago area. The foundation awards program, operating, and capital grants in support of home health-care services, community and school-based services, primary care and chronic disease management, and health promotion.
- For more information contact VNA Foundation, 20 North Wacker Drive, Suite 3118, Chicago, Ill. 60606; (312) 214-1521; http://vnafoundation.net/guidelinesprocedures
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December 22, 2013
- Nominations for the Roth Award from the Mary Byron Project for programs that demonstrate promise in ending the generational cycle of domestic violence. A cash award of $10,000 will be given to a program that focuses on disadvantaged people. Such a program provides services to those who are identified as such based on characteristics that include age, race, ethnicity, gender, faith, disabilities, low socio-economic status, non-English speaking, sexual preference, and victims from suburban areas who traditionally do not know how to avail themselves of services or who are too ashamed to find them.
- Find more information by contacting Kathy Paulin, Mary Byron Project, 10401 Linn Station Road, Louisville, Ky. 40223; (502) 992-3444; kathypaulin@marybyronproject.org; http://marybyronproject.org/index.php/our-work/the-roth-award
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January 10, 2014
- Applications for grants from the Needmor Fund, which support community organizing projects that encourage the efforts of people who are working together for justice and the common good; encourage involvement in community affairs by people whose participation has been systematically denied; and foster the active participation of all citizens in crafting values and policies that are more equitable.
- Contact: Needmor Fund, 42 South Saint Clair Street, Toledo, Ohio 43604; (419) 255-5560; http://www.needmorfund.org/procedures.htm
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Upcoming Elder Abuse Conferences/Training Events (in chronological order):
· The New York City JASA Elder Abuse Training Institute has new training classes for Fall 2013. For more details and registration information click here: http://jasa.org/sites/default/files/NextAct_Catalog_Final_8.9.13.pdf Contact Martha Pollack for further questions: 718-286-1540 or mpollack@jasa.org
· The 30th Annual Adult Protective Services Conference will be held in San Antonio, Texas from November 19-22, 2013. For more information: https://www.dfps.state.tx.us/Adult_Protection/Adult_Protective_Services_Conference/
· The 2nd Annual National Elder Abuse Symposium, hosted by the California District Attorneys Association, will be held at the Hyatt Regency Orange County in Anaheim, California on December 3-6, 2013. Register here: http://www.cdaa.org/training/seminar-conference-registration?regevent_action=register&event_id=154
· The 3rd World Congress on Adult Guardianship will be convened on May 28-30, 2014 in the Washington DC Metropolitan Area. It is sponsored by the National Guardianship Network in affiliation with the International Guardianship Network. The theme of the conference is, “Promising Practices to Ensure Excellence in Guardianship Around the World.” Proposals for presentations are due July 31. See http://worldcongressguardianship.org
An archived collection of previous newsfeeds is available here: http://ncea.posthaven.com/
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