Newsfeed – Wednesday, November 27, 2013
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ELDER ABUSE NEWSFEED
CALIFORNIA, Los Angeles Times, November 26, 2013
Ex-insurance agent charged with financial elder abuse against aunt
A former insurance agent has been charged with financial elder abuse for allegedly forging his aunt's signature to make withdrawals from a life insurance policy he sold to her, California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones said. The 47-year-old was arrested on four felony counts of financial elder abuse.
COLORADO, Coloradoan, November 23, 2013
Elder abuse: Seniors swindled out of $2.9 billion each year
http://www.coloradoan.com/article/20131122/NEWS01/311220073
A Colorado law will take effect July 2014 and will mandate the reporting of suspected crimes against at-risk adults, or those 70 years of age and older. Before the law, Colorado was behind the times, Davis said, as one of only three states in the country without mandatory reporting for crimes against at-risk adults.
FLORIDA (Palm Beach), The Palm Beach Post, November 25, 2013
Lantana woman accused of stealing $4,000 from her grandmother, who has dementia
A Lantana woman is being held without bail after she was accused of stealing more than $4,000 from her 83-year-old grandmother, who is suffering from dementia, according to a probable cause affidavit. She is being held without bond at the Palm Beach County Jail for violation of probation for a previous arrest, according to court records.
IDAHO (Nampa), Timesunion, November 21, 2013
Nampa woman charged with elder exploitation
http://www.timesunion.com/news/crime/article/Nampa-woman-charged-with-elder-exploitation-4998788.php
A 37-year-old Nampa woman is charged with exploitation of a vulnerable adult after prosecutors said she took more than $50,000 from her grandmother over a two-year period.
INDIANA (Indianapolis), WISH TV, November 22, 2013
Woman, 88, with dementia dies after attack
http://www.wishtv.com/news/local/woman-88-with-dementia-dies-after-attack
An 88-year-old woman died after being beaten in her home Tuesday, Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department officials said. The police report said the son told police he found the door unlocked, and his mother with a head wound but breathing. He told police a green blanket was covering her head, and he didn’t touch her except for poking her leg. He said he texted his brother and called 911.
IOWA, Des Moines Register, November 23, 2013
Dying man’s pleas are ignored
http://www.desmoinesregister.com/article/20131124/NEWS/311140121/Dying-man-s-pleas-are-ignored
An eastern Iowa nursing home has been fined for allegedly ignoring a dying resident’s pleas for help. The 88-year-old man died Aug. 3, hours after workers at the Willow Gardens Care Center in Marion reported seeing him waving his arms and calling out, “Please help me. Can’t breathe” the article states.
KENTUCKY (Lexington), Kentucky, November 25, 2013 (Opinion)
Project: Homeless – A trend of elderly, vulnerable adults being left at shelters
http://www.kentucky.com/2013/11/25/2954236/project-homeless-a-trend-of-elderly.html
Henry Sebastian, 55-years-old, spent most of the last days of October pushing his disabled wife, 66-yeras-old, through the streets of Lexington, looking for a place to stay. No one tracks the number of elderly or vulnerable adults who end up on the streets because a caregiver leaves them. But other homeless providers in Lexington and Louisville say they, too, have seen elderly people left because caregivers can't or won't take care of them.
MAINE (Harrington), Morning Sentinel, November 22, 2013
Down east standoff ends; elderly hostage freed
http://www.onlinesentinel.com/news/Harrington_standoff_diverts_traffic_on_Rt__1_.html
Elliot Robinson, 60, and Vernon Robinson, 78, were preventing the matriarch of the family – Elva Robinson, 84 – from getting treatment, according to state police spokesman Steve McCausland. Elliot Robinson had threatened violence if anyone tried to remove Elva from the home, McCausland said. A six-hour standoff in Harrington on Thursday ended peacefully after a son and father surrendered to Maine State Police.
MAINE (Waterville), Morning Sentinel, November 25, 2013
No criminal charges in Waterville assisted living residence allegations
An investigation of alleged sexual abuse of a Sunset Home resident did not result in criminal charges because of a lack of evidence, according to police. Police and the state Department of Health and Human Services opened parallel investigations on Nov. 14 after a resident reported that she had been sexually abused by an employee of the assisted living residence.
MICHIGAN (Port Huron), Statesman Journal, November 26, 2013
Salem woman pleads guilty to manslaughter, dumping mom’s body
A Salem woman accused of driving her elderly mother from Oregon to Port Huron and dumping her body behind a thrift store has pleaded guilty. Kelly Rhodes, 49, pleaded guilty Friday to manslaughter, a 15-year felony; vulnerable adult abuse fourth-degree, a one-year misdemeanor; and removing a dead body without permission of a medical examiner, also a one-year misdemeanor.
NEW YORK (Rochester), Post Bulletin, November 26, 2013
Woman gets probation for financial exploitation
A Rochester woman accused of spending more than $17,000 of another woman's money was sentenced Monday to a 10 year probation. The 76-year-old victim spent about six weeks during 2012 in a senior care services facility, where she was diagnosed with dementia, according to the criminal complaint. During that period, the complaint says, the accused made cash withdrawals of $11,289 on the woman's bank accounts, as well as credit card charges of $6,039.
OHIO (Athens County), The Columbus Dispatch, November 26, 2013
Elderly brother, sister removed from filthy Athens County garage
http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2013/11/25/Athens_Co_neglected_elders.html
An elderly brother, 73, and sister, 88, were hospitalized after an Athens County deputy sheriff found them living in a garage without a bathroom or running water on Saturday, unable to care for themselves. Deputy Mike Burba wrote that he was horrified that trash, rotting food and feces were piled waist-high in some places in the room.
OKLAHOMA (Sallisaw), Sequoya County Times, November 22, 2013
Tag agency owner facing charges
http://www.sequoyahcountytimes.com/news/article_92ed281c-539e-11e3-bf13-0019bb30f31a.html
A Sallisaw woman was arrested on Wednesday after being charged in Sequoyah County District Court with taking more than $80,000 from an elderly woman. Det. Sandra Girdner said that Townsend had been investigating the matter since May 2011 when it was brought to APS’s attention that the older woman’s accounts were overdrawn.
OREGON (Lane County), The Register-Guard, November 23, 2013
Inmate sues over treatment
http://www.registerguard.com/rg/news/local/30763439-75/gillette-jail-lawsuit-county-civil.html.csp
Johan Gillette, who could face the death penalty if he is convicted of slaying his 73-year-old father and a 71-year-old University of Oregon music professor in September 2012, repeatedly claims in a handwritten civil rights suit that county jail inmates are unduly subjected to a number of “punitive” conditions and rules.
OREGON (Washington County), KOIN, November 25, 2013
Women accused of bilking 81-year-old man
http://www.koin.com/news/washington-county/women-accused-of-bilking-81-year-old-man
Two women are accused of stealing more than $80,000, jewelry and potentially the family farm from an 81-year-old man they befriended in a shopping center parking lot in 2011. The sons said the widower and the two women instantly became friends and within a matter of months also became his caretaker.
TENNESSEE (Franklin County), The Tullahoma News, November 23, 2013
Paving contractor charged with fraud
http://www.tullahomanews.com/?p=20127
Franklin County Sheriff’s Office deputies and investigators have arrested a Georgia man in connection with deceptive business practices, theft of Property between $1,000 and $10,000 and abuse, neglect or exploitation of an elder person and is being held in custody under a $50,000 bond. Statements by the victim indicted that Callaway Construction had charged them $3,850 for repairs made to their driveway, when the value of the actual work done was estimated at less than $500.
TEXAS (Corpus Christi), KIII TV, November 21, 2013
Code enforcement called out to Annaville home, owner detained
http://www.kiiitv.com/story/24038854/code-enforcement-called-out-to-annaville-home-owner-detained
Corpus Christi police decided to remove a woman from her Annaville home Thursday, having to place her in handcuffs, because of the condition of her home. Neighbors say the woman is paranoid, thinking others are after her, and so she barricaded herself in. Due to the condition of the house, Adult Protective Services was called out to the home.
WASHINGTON, Herald Sun News, November 26, 2013
We need a hotline to stop elder abuse: Advocare CEO Greg Mahney
The Office of the Public Advocate investigated 117 cases of elder abuse last financial year - up 67 per cent from the previous year. "We've suggested to the State Government that they fund an elder abuse helpline where people can phone one number and it come through to Advocare and then we'll be able to assist those people," Mr Mahney said.
INTERNATIONAL (Canada), The Star, November 24, 2013
More suspected abuse at Wexford Residence nursing home
New Ontario inspection report shows other incidents of suspected resident-on-resident physical and sexual abuse at the Wexford Residence, a long-term care home where a 72-year-old woman was beaten to death last March. A total of seven resident-on-resident abuse incidents — four involving physical abuse and three of suspected sexual abuse — were reported by The Wexford Residence between April and July.
INTERNATIONAL (United Kingdom), Mail Online, November 26, 2013
Pensioner with dementia who was handcuffed by ‘heavy-handed’ police at a care home tragically died two months later after ‘never recovering from his ordeal’
A dementia patient who was handcuffed by police at a care home died two months later after 'never recovering from his ordeal', his relatives claimed today. His wife, 74, claims the grandfather-of-two was left 'terrified and shaken' by the 'brutish tactics' used by the officers and stopped eating after the ordeal. The retired BT worker - who has suffered with Alzheimers for five years - lost half his body weight in two months and weighed just six stone when he passed away a different nursing home on November 8.
ABUSE OF ADULTS WITH DISABILITIES
IOWA (Muscatine), Des Moines Register, November 24, 2013
Register investigation: woman receives 4 Taser stuns in 8 minutes
http://www.desmoinesregister.com/article/20131124/NEWS01/311240044?odyssey=mod%7Cmostcom
A woman with a complex genetic mental disorder was shocked with a Taser four times last month by a sergeant from the Muscatine County Sheriff’s Department in an effort to get her to change her clothing. Five videos and 20 pages of sheriff’s department reports related to the Oct. 7 incident were obtained by The Des Moines Register under Iowa’s open-records law. Both the law enforcement consultant and three mental health advocates from Disability Rights Iowa agree that the incident, when seen in its entirety on video, is traumatic.
INTERNATIONAL (England), Redditch Standard, November 22, 2013
Taxi driver jailed for sexual contact with vulnerable woman
A TAXI driver who engaged in ‘heavy petting’ with a woman passenger who it was obvious had the mind of a child has been jailed for six years, the article states. The 62-year-old had pleaded guilty at Warwick Crown Court to two offences of causing or inciting a person with a mental disorder impeding her free choice to engage in sexual activity.
INTERNATIONAL (Northern Ireland), Belfast Telegraph, November 23, 2013
Horror of ‘sex slave house’ in Armagh: Women held in home and raped over two decades, court hears
A malnourished Englishwoman with severe learning disabilities was raped repeatedly and imprisoned for nearly a decade at a specially adapted house in Northern Ireland, the High Court has heard. Prosecutors claimed one of the victims, a married woman said to have gone missing from her home in 2004, weighed just six stone after being kept locked in a sparse and unlit bedroom with no inside door handle.
RELATED ISSUES
NEVADA (Reno), 2 NEWS, November 24, 2013
Reno police looking for missing man with dementia
http://www.ktvn.com/story/24058360/reno-police-looking-for-missing-man-with-advanced-dementia
The Reno Police Department wants you to be on the lookout for a man with dementia who's been missing for a week. The man has been diagnosed with advanced dementia and high blood pressure.
OREGON (Eugene), KVAL, November 25, 2013
Man, 83, who went missing found locked in a closet
The 83-year-old man with dementia who was feared missing in the cold after he vanished from his residential living facility Monday has been found alive locked inside a closet in the building. Officials at the assisted living center said that the man suffers from dementia and requires medical supervision.
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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 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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