An attorney for the Fillmore Convalescent Center said Monday that he will seek to overturn a Ventura County Superior Court jury verdict that awarded $7.75 million in an elder abuse lawsuit to the family of a 71-year-old stroke victim. The verdict, $2.75 million in actual damages and $5 million in punitive damages, was announced December [...]
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Monthly Archives: December 2009
Government Analyzes the Effectiveness of Sanctions Against Noncompliant Facilities
December 29, 2009 – 9:13 pm
A new U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) report analyzing the federal government’s use of sanctions on nursing homes whose negligent practices are found to be harming residents has drawn the attention of lawmakers seeking to add teeth to regulations designed to protect vulnerable older Americans. In the report, the GAO analyzes the use of the [...]
Partnership Gives University Students Unique Experience in Elder Caregiving
December 28, 2009 – 9:50 pm
A unique partnership between San Francisco State and an assisted living facility in San Francisco provides School of Nursing and other students opportunities to gain clinical experience working with elders. A privately run facility for the past 125 years, the University Mound Ladies Home (UMLH) was scheduled for closure and demolition until San Francisco Mayor [...]
Financial Elder Abuse Requires that Seniors Beware of Lenders…and Relatives
December 28, 2009 – 9:49 pm
According to a recent report from MetLife’s Mature Market Institute, the elderly are victimized $2.6 billion a year, and that is a conservative figure because it has been estimated that only one in 25 cases of financial elder abuse is ever reported to authorities. At a conference last month of specialists in reverse mortgages, a [...]
Guilty Plea for Man Who Allegedly Attacked a California Senior with a Hammer
December 27, 2009 – 12:42 pm
A man pleaded guilty Thursday to an elder abuse charge and was immediately sentenced to four years in prison for attacking the manager of his apartment complex with a hammer. Dale Reed Bacon, 41, assaulted the 67-year-old victim, whom he had known for about 10 years, at 1:30 p.m. last May 27 at the complex [...]
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