MT. UNION, HUNTINGDON COUNTY – Local and State officials who deal with elderly abuse investigations say they have a growing problem on their hands. A large meeting was held in Huntingdon County on Friday to help seniors learn to protect themselves and their neighbors. Organizers of the session say there are too many people...
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Tackling Nursing Home Complaints With Ombudsman Programs
NPR Aging and Abuse Series: Part 3 Laura Nichols has heard it all — everything from broken air conditioning in the middle of the summer to diapers not being changed for hours at a time. She is with the Long-Term Care Ombudsman Program that covers Alexandria, Arlington, Fairfax, Loudoun, and Prince William counties, serving...
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The Uphill Battle To End Elderly Abuse
NPR Aging and Abuse Series: Part 2 Bonnie Klem calls her Adult Protective Services (APS) office in Rockville “chaotic.” It’s full of folders and binders stuffed with papers detailing hundreds of cases of alleged abuse or neglect. But despite that chaos and the grim contents of those folders, Klem is endlessly upbeat. “What we...
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Elderly Couple’s Tale Of Abuse Not So Uncommon
NPR Aging and Abuse Series: Part 1 James and Etta Jennings moved to the Forest Hill neighborhood of Richmond in 1959. They were young – just married – and the first owners of their red brick ranch house. They had children and then grandchildren, who gathered in their family room for holidays and learned...
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Financial Exploitation Of Elderly Difficult To Detect
NPR Aging and Abuse Series: Part 4 Rosetta Skipper met a woman at St. Luke’s Catholic Church along East Capitol Street in southeast D.C. in 2007. Skipper’s husband had died five years earlier; they had no children, and she lived alone in her northeast D.C. home. Her closest family was in New York City....
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Is A Family Member Ripping Off Your Aging Parent?
Carrie got concerned when her brothers suddenly began to exclude her from their Mom’s financial affairs. It didn’t feel right, but she wasn’t sure she could do anything about it. When she called, I got that “slow burn” feeling that comes over me when I hear about financial elder abuse. As a consultant for...
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Bail stays at $600,000 in alleged scam of 88-year-old
Bail remained at $600,000 Tuesday for the man accused of stealing two vintage vehicles and the South Philadelphia home of a World War II veteran through a yearlong deception scheme. Public defender Beena McDonald asked Judge Nazario Jimenez Jr. at a morning hearing to lower Melvin Mcilwaine’s bail to $60,000 and put Mcilwaine on...
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Supreme Court’s Elder Law Task Force Will Tackle Growing Abuses to Older Pennsylvanians
The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania has formed an Elder Law Task Force, chaired by Justice Debra Todd, to study the growing problems involved in guardianship, abuse and neglect, and access to justice. The task force has been charged by Chief Justice of Pennsylvania Ronald D. Castille with recommending solutions that include court rules, legislation,...
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CFP Board Offers Financial Self-Defense Guide To Seniors
A free guide for senior citizens on how to avoid falling prety to financial fraud and abuse has been published by the CFP (Certified Financial Planner) Board of Standards. Financial Self-Defense for Seniors is designed to give seniors guidelines on what to watch for and how to avoid being victims, according to the board....
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Nursing Homes Begin to Offer Shelter for Elder Abuse Victims
Of all the possible threats to seniors’ physical and financial well-being, you might expect their children to be low on the list. But the fact is, abuse of elders is all too common — annually affecting one in 10 adults over the age of 60, according to a study by the Medical University of...
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