Despite claims that proposed state budget cuts to programs that provide in-home care to disabled senior citizens will not affect those with the highest level of need, a new analysis by the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research finds that even severely disabled seniors will experience a total loss of services.
Specifically, an analysis of data [...]

A $50,000 fine issued this week to Mayers Memorial Hospital District in Fall River Mills stemming from the death of a patient is the hospital’s fifth citation from state health regulators in a little more than a year.
The hospital’s nursing home was cited by state health regulators four times last year and paid a total [...]

SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA - A former Bank of America employee is being held on suspicion of grand theft and felony elder abuse after prosecutors say he swindled an elderly woman out of $61,000.  Prosecutors say Saul Cornejo was able to swindle the money from a 96-year-old woman by persuading her to allow him access to [...]