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June is elder awareness month. World Elder Abuse Awareness Day was recognized on June 15th, but the entire month should be used to recognize this important topic. Unfortunately, elder abuse is far more widespread than it should be. This … [Read more...]
Elder abuse is any type of physical, emotional, or sexual abuse, or neglect, that is perpetrated against a senior citizen. Seniors are often targets of abuse because they present a more vulnerable target for would-be abusers. And … [Read more...]
Almost twenty years ago, my grandfather announced that he was getting married. None of us had ever met the person that he was engaged to. She moved in with him and he stopped talking to a lot of his family. He was 90 years old … [Read more...]
In Connecticut, an elder abuse hotline was recently established. The goal of this is to help detect and eliminate instances of abuse with more efficiency. This goes for all types of abuse, not just physical. Emotional, sexual, financial and … [Read more...]
Financial abuse is one of the more common types of senior abuse. It’s hard to get a gauge on how many people are impacted by this, especially because reports indicate that more than half of senior abuse cases go … [Read more...]
Neglect has long been a problem in the senior care industry. Some states have been incredibly diligent about this type of abuse, putting very strict procedures in place and cracking down hard on it when it happens. But even with these … [Read more...]
The vast majority of us cannot begin to understand why the abuse of seniors occurs. It’s wrong, no matter how you look at it. Why then does it ever occur? Unfortunately, not everyone thinks like you and I do. Some people are … [Read more...]
After all that we have gone through as a country over the last year, instances of racism and violence still occur with regularity. We see that unkind acts can occur not just against people of different cultures and ethnicities, but also … [Read more...]
COVID-19 has revealed a lot of nasty things about us, both as individuals and as a society. But one of the saddest things that we’ve seen recently is the uptick in the number of abuse cases that have been reported around the country, … [Read more...]
Financial abuse is a serious crime. During times of crisis like what we are experiencing right now with the coronavirus, the negative effects are magnified much more severely. What would normally be a catastrophic event for an elderly … [Read more...]
A lot of us are well versed in the fact that the senior population and the need for senior care care are growing at a very fast rate. In many parts of the country, this is a potential crisis. Other parts already seem to have a firm grasp on … [Read more...]
Medi-Cal, and Medicaid in general, are in place to help those that do not have the financial resources to pay for more expensive private insurance or Medicare supplements. Even though they might not be able to pay for insurance out of … [Read more...]
