PRINTABLE PAGE Nursing Home Abuse Unlike Other Crimes By Larry Margasak, Associated Press WriterOriginally published by The Associated Press, March 3, 2002 WASHINGTON — In a videotaped deathbed interview, Helen Love sat with a metal band pinned to her skull…
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PRINTABLE PAGE Jury Awards $1.5M Over Cancer Pain Originally published by The Associated Press, June 14, 2001 OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) – A jury has awarded $1.5 million to the family of a man who accused his doctor of not prescribing…
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PRINTABLE PAGE Many Seniors Get ‘Woefully Inadequate’ Pain Treatment, Study Says Andre Picard, Public Health ReporterOriginally published in The Globe and Mail, April 25, 2001 Pain among elderly nursing-home residents is prevalent, persistent and poorly treated, according to a new…
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PRINTABLE PAGE Nursing-Home Assaults Skyrocket in Mass. By Kay LazarOriginally published in The Boston Herald, March 17, 2002 Reports of sexual and physical assaults on nursing-home residents—often by other patients—have risen dramatically in Massachusetts over the last several years, a…
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PRINTABLE PAGE Elder Abuse is Topic of County Pamphlet A district attorney’s office official says most cases are perpetrated by a family member. By Richard Chaplin, The Press-Enterprise San BernardinoOriginally published in Inland Empire Online, June 17, 2001 It happens…
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PRINTABLE PAGE Little Being Done to Stop Elder Abuse: Experts By Maggie FoxOriginally published by Reuters, June 18, 2002 WASHINGTON (Reuters) — From the frail woman in a nursing home found with bruises on her face and hands to the…
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PRINTABLE PAGE ‘Cashmere Countess’ Swindled Ex-Mayor By Michael Sneed and Scott Fornek, Staff ReportersOriginally published in the Chicago Sun-Times, December 16, 2001 He speaks slowly and softly, in the same gentle manner that was his public trademark. But he pronounces…
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PRINTABLE PAGE Cops, Prosecutors Look for Ways to Press Charges By Scott Fornek, Staff ReporterOriginally published in the Chicago Sun-Times, December 16, 2001 The mother and father are in their 70s. Their only son is in his 30s and messed…
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PRINTABLE PAGE Senior Population Expanding And So Is: Elder Abuse By Earl BolenderOriginally published in the Mount Shasta News, November 7, 2001 Having just lost her husband and unable to get around like she used to, an elderly widow decides…
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PRINTABLE PAGE She ‘Felt Like a Prisoner’ By Joe Calderone and Thomas ZambitoOriginally published by the Daily News, June 11, 2001 An 80-year-old woman says a Brooklyn nursing home held her against her will and denied her repeated requests to…