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World Elder Abuse Awareness Day 2007-04-11 14:05:00 Friday 15 June 2007 Mark your calendars! The International Network for the Prevention of Elder
Abuse (INPEA) has announced the 2nd Annual World
Elder Abuse Awareness
Day (WEAAD) on June 15, 2007 and once again AEA is working with care providers, regulators, government bodies, and the public to make this a major eventAdult Protection Teams are under-funded, under-resourced, and under-staffed. Increased referrals to some teams would result in crisis. Abusers escape through the huge gaps that exist e.g. if you neglect someone and kill them you will face a charge under the Domestic Violence, Crimes and and Victims Act 2005. But you can neglect them, and neglect them, and neglect them ...to the point of death. This must stop!
Seminars on the 'Hidden Secret' of Elder Abuse 2007-04-11 14:00:00 Ontario,Canada Seminar on April 24th,2007 offers information on elder abuse.The Brant Community Healthcare System is hosting an elder abuse seminar in St. George on April 24. The 9:30 a.m. seminar will feature Sharon Livingstone, the co-ordinator of the gerontology/multidiscipline program at Conestoga College, who will speak on Elder
Abuse in Ontario - the Hidden
Secret.The program will also cover the pitfalls of power of attorney and where to find help if you suspect abuse. The event will be held at the St. George fire hall. For more information, call Anne Taylor at 519-442-4000, ext. 6330. Read more:Seminars
Maine has Five (5) Elder Abuse Task Forces, Florida has Zero (0) 2007-04-10 14:00:00 Florida
Fountain of Youth by Ray Fernandez April 10, 2007Maine
with a population according to the 2005 census of 1,321,505 with 14.6% of the population over 65 years old has 5 Elder
Abuse Task Forces
and groups across Maine are planning events around Elder Abuse Awareness Day on June 15th 2007.In contrast Florida with a population of 17,789,864 with 16.8 of the population over 65 years of age has Zero (0) Elder Abuse Task Forces and so far I have heard (0) stories designed to raise Elder abuse Awareness during June 15th. (World Elder Abuse Day). Perhaps people in Florida never plan on getting old and Florida has The Fountain of Youth a legendary spring that reputedly restores the youth of anyone who drinks of its waters. Florida is said to be its location, and stories of the fountain are some of the most persistent stories associated with the state.Florida's Elders and their families only have the Division of Children and Families, DCF which finds itself powerless to intervene in Eld
Hair Dresser to Prosecutor at age 64 to protect Elders! 2007-04-10 13:58:00 Devotion to elderly rooted in salonKarr acted on horror stories she heard as hairdresserBy Jane Northrop, MEDIANEWS STAFFSometimes people tell their hairdressers things they won't repeat to anyone else.The stories Helen Karr heard as the manager of a string of San Francisco beauty salons shocked and saddened her. She heard tale after tale from elderly clients who found themselves in financial ruin at the hands of callous family members or opportunistic caretakers.Karr never forgot the feeling of helplessness she heard in those women's voices.On her 64th birthday, Karr enrolled in law school, earned a degree and now works as an elder abuse specialist in the San Francisco District Attorney's Office.Today, victims of elder abuse are not only robbed of their money, they are often in danger of losing their homes. Some lose everything, including their life savings....Eventually they so isolate their victim from family members they claim "no one else cares about you, but me."Abridged read
Help stop dangerous "super bug" in hospitals! 2007-04-10 13:55:00 by Rebecca YoungEvery year, over two million Americans develop hospital infections - and 90,000 patients die from these infections. Sign our petition to tell Governor Crist to make stopping deadly hospital infections a priority!No one wants to go to the hospital, but when you do, you expect to get better, not worse, right?But the scary truth is, 90,000 patients die each year in the U.S. from hospital acquired infections. That's more people dying from hospital infections than from homicides and auto accidents combined!And the sad truth is, these are preventable infections. But Governor Crist has the power to reduce infection rates in Florida by making sure our hospitals are using proven strategies to combat these infections. Send a letter to Governor Crist today!Now here's the latest bad news: a virulent "super bug" now spreading in our hospitals poses a deadly risk to patients and is driving up the cost of hospital care – you may have read about this "super bug" in the paper recen Read more:dangerous
The Highest Graveyard in the World.!!! 2007-04-08 14:00:00 Post Courtesy Laurie BorgussMount Everest is both the highest mountain and the highest graveyard in the world. As of 2002, 175 climbers had died on the mountain, and the vast majority of these bodies were left behind. There are reported to be at least 41 bodies on the north side of Everest.Some people simply run out of gas on the trail and freeze to death in place. Others are consumed by avalanches. And, as veteran mountaineer David Breashears points out, removing dead bodies from this elevation is an enormous task.Breashears describes how it took a team of 12 people eight hours to move the body of one dead Taiwanese man down a portion of the mountain. The high altitude, low oxygen, fierce winds, and intense cold make the trip extremely challenging even for an unencumbered person, so few climbers attempt to take the bodies of the deceased back with them.Some bodies are lost forever on Everest. During the tragic May 1996 expeditions when eight people died in a freak storm near the summi Read more:World
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Mount Everest Tours 2007-04-08 05:44:00 Tours by Mountain Madness >> Photos courtesy of Charlie Fowler Photography and othersSlide Show of Tibet and it's elders >>Climbing at high altitudes is incredibly dangerous. The lack of oxygen makes the brain function poorly. Climbers often make bad judgments that they would not make if they were thinking clearly. The ratio of persons who have made it to the summit of Everest
compared to those who have died is almost 1 in 4.This album is powered by BubbleShare - Add to my blog Read more:Tours
New Disney Attraction Unleashes an Avalanche of Adventure and Surprises 2007-04-07 14:15:00 Aboard Expedition EverestNow equipped to conquer the mountain, trekkers board the Anandapur Rail Service. This aging 34-passenger industrial railway, which was once used to transport tea, is now destined for the foot of Mount Everest.As the steam train rolls through thick bamboo forests and fern groves up the first hill through a fortress, ritualized music signals riders to dangers ahead. En route, a cluster of sacred yeti totems and a massive yeti mural crafted on the rockwork gives further warning to turn back.The train continues across a teetering bridge into the mountain, dives into shimmering glacier valleys and then climbs up through the snow-capped peaks.Skulking silhouettes and shadows of the lurking yeti, coupled with startling special effects and climate variations, enhance the attraction as the steam train darts in and out of the picturesque mountain range.But suddenly the train screeches to a halt near a gnarled mass of twisted metal. In a fit of rage, the yeti has torn apa Read more:Disney
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Elder Blogger of the Week - O'Folks 2007-04-07 14:10:00 From Key Largo to Maine to Alaska. One of the most interesting Elder
bloggers has got to be O'Folks, thanks for the link on Audio books it's sure nice to turn the lights out at night and listen to a good book.I've really enjoyed reading the stories on Nonagenarians that have accomplished great things like Momofuku Ando, the man who invented instant ramen and founded Nissin Foods, or RUTH JEFFORD: She first flew at 17 and took her last solo flight at 82 to Nebraska for a reunion she was a violinist, and a pioneer pilot. The story on Mahala Ashley Dickerson is inspiring and just awesome. The advise and tips you offer on Elder Topics are relevant and timely.Mahala Ashley Dickerson 1913 to 2007Rosa Parks, left, visited Mahala Ashley Dickerson. Photo by ERIK HILL / Daily News archive 1996.“I remember one lawyer telling me one time, he said, ‘Rex, you see those mountains out there?’ He said, ‘Those mountains are littered with the bones of lawyers who underestimated M. Ashley Dicke Read more:Blogger
Free Audio Books 2007-04-07 14:00:00 Audio versions of books in public domain, free http://www.boingboing.net/2007/04/02/librivox_releases_70.htmlCory Doctorow: Hugh from Librivox (a project that enlists volunteers to create free audiobooks of public domain texts) sez, “We just had an extraordinary month. We published 70 texts (as part of a March madness campaign to finish as many books as we could). Our effort makes us, I suspect, the biggest maker of audio books in the world (at least in March). Among the titles now available for all the world to hear for free:”*Relativity: The Special and General Theory by Einstein, Albert*Sense and Sensibility by Austen, Jane*Moby Dick, or the Whale - Herman Melville*Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea - Jules Verne*The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan* Candide - Voltaire* The Sayings of Confucius - ConfuciusPost courtesy of O'Folks Read more:Audio
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Candlelight Vigil April 26, 2007 is all about the victims 2007-04-07 13:57:00 Wheatherford , Texas Danie M. Huffman wdreporter2@yahoo.comAs the sun sets across Holland Lake Park on a perfect spring evening, shoes will be placed around the lake representing crime victims.The 12th annual CandlelightVigil
will be held at the lake April
26, with ceremonies beginning at 7 p.m.This year’s theme is “Victim’s Rights: Every Victim, Every Time.”The National statistics on Americans harmed by crime each year is 24 million.According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Department of Human Services, U.S. Department of Transportation, National Center on Elder Abuse and the Department of Justice, national statistics are alarming.The agencies conducted surveys and reported a homicide occurs every 31 minutes, and every 2.7 minutes a person is raped.Other time lines and numbers include an assault occurring every 7.2 seconds, and new cases of child abuse and neglect are reported every 36 seconds.One person is killed in an alcohol-related
Elder Abuse Suit Alleges Serial Sexual Predator Allowed to Roam the Halls 2007-04-06 13:40:00 - Interviews With Attorney Stephen Garcia Available - SAN BERNARDINO, Calif., April 5 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A civil suit(Case #CIVSS-0700043), was filed in San Bernardino Superior Court by an 87-year-old woman who alleges she was sexually molested repeatedly by LarryHoover, a co-manager with his wife of the San Bernardino Leisure PointeRetirement Center (the fictitious name for Holiday Retirement Corp.,headquartered in Salem, Oregon [see end of release for list of Californiacities]), who was known by facility management and its corporate overseersto be a serial sexual predator upon the elderly women living at the center.read it all here >> Read more:Elder
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Getting tough on elder abuse 2007-04-06 13:32:00 By Thomas Tracy New YorkTo all of the disreputable criminals out there: your practice of preying on senior citizens just got a bit tougher. The New York State Senate last week passed a bill that would subject anyone convicted of harming a senior citizen with increased jail time. The bill, which is currently being mulled over by the Assembly, would turn any assault against a senior citizen over the age of 70 into a class D or E felony, which carries a penalty of seven years of prison time. Currently, those who attack anyone – including senior citizens — during the course of a robbery face a misdemeanor offense that usually carries a penalty of one year in prison. Those responsible for abusing elderly Brooklynites usually face minimal time unless some form of intent can be proven, officials said. The bill was spearheaded by Bay Ridge State Senator Marty Golden following the March attack on 101-year-old Queens resident Rose Morat by a deranged mugger during a robbery in her own apart Read more:abuse
Development Center Employee Charged with Abuse 2007-04-05 14:00:00 Panama City, Florida. A Bay County woman was arrested this week and charged with elder abuse after she alledgely struck a nursing home patient who was under her care. Doris L. Cuevas, a certified nursing assistant and former employee of the Panama City DevelopmentCenter
, alledgely struck a patient, once with a closed fist to the back of the neck and once with an opened hand to the side of his head. According to the arrest affidavit, Cuevas was assisting another employee who was attempting to clean and dress a wound on the arm of the victim. The man, who has a reported history of "self injury behavior," attempted to bite Cuevas, the affidavit said. Cuevas was reported to have become agitated and struck the victim twice. The incident was reported and Cuevas was immediately fired from the Center. Cuevas, 58, was booked into the Bay County Jail on one felony count of abuse of a disabled adult. The case will be prosecuted by the Fourteenth Judicial Circuit’s State Attorney’s Office.Eld Read more:Employee
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Emerging Artists Against Elder Abuse 2007-04-05 14:00:00 Emerging Artists
Against Elder
Abuse -Cortesy of Lisa Neremberg 3/16/2007 PreventElderABuse.blogspot.comOne of the most enjoyable projects I've worked on lately is consulting with the Health Sciences Department of City College of San Francisco to develop a training for emergency medical personnel– fire fighters, EMTs, and paramedics. As part of the project, which is funded by the Archstone Foundation, we're developing an on-line, interactive class with the help of City College design instructor Regina Rowland.As an added perk, Regina's enlisted the talents of her advanced design class to help us develop a logo, media kit, ads, and other materials to promote the project. Fellow consultants Eileen Goldman and Sharon Turner, and I have brought the class up to speed on elder abuse as they teach us about branding, positioning statements, and typographics. The result is a very impressive packet of materials that we'll be releasing in the next few weeks.Now the class is interested in do
“The Crime of the 21st Century.” 2007-04-05 13:55:00 New law protects senior Thadeus Greenson/The Times-StandardArticle Launched: 01/23/2007 04:29:18 AM PST Re-print 4-5-2007More and more of these cases are coming in the form of elder financial abuse, which is growing so fast that it is being dubbed by some as “the crime of the 21st century.”“They are very clever, very resourceful and they know how to trigger people's emotions.”Under the new law, banks also could face a $5,000 fine for failing to report suspicious activity.Hufft said one of the more disturbing aspect of these crimes is that they are often committed by family members. Read more:Century
Clara G. Fernandez, another Victim of Elder Abuse ? 2007-04-04 14:00:00 This is a picture of Clara G. Fernandez
standing proudly in the foyer of her home in Key West, Florida before she was taken in the Summer of 2004.This is Clara G. Fernandez, who was suffering from dementia and Alzheimer's disease in 2004. Right after she was abducted , and her monies concealed as she was secreted away from her husband, family and friends. Read more:Elder
Clara G. Fernandez - Three Months After her Abduction. 2007-04-04 13:50:00 -Clara on November 17Th 2004, almost three months after she was abducted from her home in Key West and after her near fatal fall. Before her abduction, Clara lived happily in her well equipped home designed to meet her handicap needs. She was being lovingly cared for and enjoyed nutritious meals according to her special dietary needs and was under 24 hour supervision.After being abducted, Clara was left alone in a motel room while her handlers left her heavily sedated. Clara, left to her own devise, decided to take a shower without assistance. Clara fell in the bathroom and hit her head on the porcelain tub. She was found later by her handlers and was taken to the E.R. in Key West. Her injuries were so critical that she then had to be air-lifted to Jackson Memorial Hospital's Trauma Center in Miami, Florida to undergo emergency neurosurgery.The result of that fall indeed rendered her "totally incapacitated".Again, another 'CASE OF NEGLECT' involving the elderly. Here in writing, a s Read more:Fernandez
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Clara in the E.R with her {Quote -sons} - 'Unbelievable'! 2007-04-04 13:45:00 Later on, and as if it's not enough that Clara suffered a stroke as a result of the fall, and is vomiting mucus, her {Quote
- son's}, William A. Hart and Al Fernandez Jr. (a social worker)- request that Clara be given more sedatives !On November 17Th 2004, Angela, Clara's closest friend who had not been allowed to see or talk to Clara, found out Clara was in the hospital's emergency room and came to see her. Angela attempted to speak with Clara and William Hart became aggresive and rude with Angela and did everything possible to keep Angela from speaking with Clara.Clara Fernandez was finally rescued by a police raid, early morning on August 5Th 2005, and while doctors examined her, Clara tried to explain her situation to the best of her ability and even attempted to file a police report before she finally gave up under the stress and choose to try to forget the traumatic experience she suffered. Read more:Unbelievable
U.S Federal laws Title 18 Part 1 Chapter 55 >1201 2007-04-03 14:20:00 “(2) Guidelines.—The United States Sentencing Commission is directed to amend the existing guidelines for the offense of ‘kidnapping, abduction, or unlawful restraint,’ by including the following additional specific offense characteristics: If the victim was intentionally maltreated (i.e., denied either food or medical care) to a life-threatening degree, increase by 4 levels; if the victim was sexually exploited (i.e., abused, used involuntarily for pornographic purposes) increase by 3 levels; if the victim was placed in the care or custody of another person who does not have a legal right to such care or custody of the child either in exchange for money or other consideration, increase by 3 levels; if the defendant allowed the child to be subjected to any of the conduct specified in this section by another person, then increase by 2 levels.” Read more:Federal
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ElderAbuseHelp.Org Congratulates D.C.F. On New Policy 2007-04-03 14:15:00 Congratulations on "Positive Step Forward"! {This is what we need to make our Justice System work better for our Elderly!}Clara's family made contact with DCF - District 14 head, Mr. James Grible to investigate the well being of Clara G. Fernandez, because Clara's family did not feel the DCF in Bartow, Florida (Polk County), was properly investigating the welfare of Clara G. Fernandez or doing enough to prevent potential harm from coming to Clara.Mr. Grible called back and said that he had met with his legal staff and that "an abduction had indeed taken place", he also said that he would be writing a letter to the State Attorneys office to recommend that they take action. Mr. James Grible also said that he found "deficiencies in the manner of the investigation" in Bartow, Florida, as to how it was handled regarding the complaint that was filed by Clara G. Fernandez's family when they lost contact with her and became fearful that something tragic would happen to her. This all came Read more:Policy
DCF Leaders Vow a New Day 2007-04-03 14:05:00 By Colleen Jenkins cjenkins@sptimes.com. Published March 27, 2007TAMPA - Department of Children and Families Secretary Bob Butterworth came to town Monday to introduce the agency's new regional director for Hillsborough, Pinellas, Pasco and Manatee counties.But Butterworth and his colleagues also used the occasion to herald "a new day" of openness for the beleaguered child welfare department."We will no longer use this agency to hide behind the concept of confidentiality," George Sheldon, Butterworth's assistant secretary for operations, told law enforcement officials, DCF employees and reporters.If the mantra sticks, it will certainly mean a climate change for DCF officials who traditionally have been tight-lipped about missteps in child welfare cases. Butterworth said confidentiality laws should be used to protect the identities of children but not to hide department mistakes.The secretary and Cox both promised that the days of "no comment" from agency officials were over. During h Read more:Leaders
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California Bankers Association Publishes “A Call To Arms To Protect Our Seniors” by the Edcomm Group’s Dr. Linda Eagle 2007-04-02 14:00:00 New York, NY, March 31, 2007 --(PR.com)-- CaliforniaBankers
Association (CBA), the largest banking trade association, has published “A Call to Arms to Protect
Our Seniors
” by Dr. Linda Eagle
, president of The Edcomm Group
.The Edcomm Group partnered with CBA in September 2006 in an effort to combat elder financial abuse and deliver training to banks in California. California is at the forefront of protecting its elderly customers and has played a large role in elevating elder financial abuse to a national issue.With more than 5 million cases per year, elder financial abuse is the number one crime committed against persons age 65 and older.Elder financial abuse is defined as the illegal taking, misuse or concealment of funds, property or assets of elders, through trickery, intimidation or force, or without consent. Elder financial abuse can involve anything from a telemarketer's solicitation on behalf of a fake charity to a family member's misuse of power of attorney. The Edcomm G
Mainstream Media Discovers Elders Online 2007-04-12 14:35:00 Without ever having produced a podcast or vlog (yet), I somehow got myself quoted in The New York Times this morning in a story by Keith Schneider about how elders are using audio and video to tell their stories online.Media and cultural assumptions notwithstanding, elders are here by the millions doing everything younger people do online and telling the stories – great and small - of our lives, creating a rich archive of what life was like during the second half of the 20th century on into the 21st.Which is a nice lead-in to the new Elder Storytelling Place blog. Today’s entry is from Mick Brady about his childhood in upstate New York. We eagerly await your story submissions too. They can be about yesteryear or yesterday. Fact or fiction. Real or almost real. Funny, serious, happy or sad. Tell us your stories.abridged read the entire article by Ronni Bennett here >> Read more:Mainstream
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First there is the crime and then there are the hours of repeating what happened to authorities. 2007-04-12 14:30:00 Center opens for victims of violent crime
s, By Carol La Valley, Roundup staff reporter."Ideally, we want people to feel safe when they are here," said forensic interviewer/victim's advocate Christy Walton.Walton's job is to make the crime victim(s) feel at ease in a private room with a comfortable chair where she interviews them about what happened.The new center is called the Gila Family Advocacy Center. It is one of 16 such facilities in Arizona and 600 nationwide that aim to minimize further trauma to victims."The legal system is daunting to go through," said Jean Oliver, education coordinator for the Time Out Shelter and program coordinator for the Gila Family Advocacy Center. "Our mission is to improve outcomes for abuse victims.""From our perspective, (GFAC) is going to be the best opportunity to offer immediate services, and help crime victims understand the legal system," said county attorney Daisy Flores.GFAC plans to review all child fatalities in Gila County to help determ Read more:First
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Financial and physical abuse of the elderly is one of the fastest growing crimes in America, rising 19.6 percent from 2000 to 2004. 2007-04-12 14:25:00 The Washington County Sheriff's Office Elder Safe Program hosted a one-day elder abuse
seminar Thursday on elder financial exploitation cases and its parallels to domestic violence, stalking and sexual assault grooming.Marcia Langer is the director of the Elder Safe Program. "Last year the Elder Safe Program, using trained volunteer victim advocates, assisted nearly 1,000 elderly
victims of crime in Washington County," Langer told the nearly 200 attendees from agencies statewide. "Sadly, it is estimated that less than 20 percent of elder abuse cases are ever reported to authorities." In elder abuse, undue influence is usually used to financially exploit the elderly. This behavior shares similarities with domestic violence abusers, stalkers and sexual predators who groom their targets.Financial
and physical
abuse of the elderly is one of the fastest growing crimes in America
, rising 19.6 percent from 2000 to 2004. The U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging estimates there may be as man
Kentucky Politicians, Promise to get tough on Elder Abuse 2007-04-12 14:20:00 Miller details criminal justice platform By Stephenie Steitzerssteitzer@courier-journal.comThe Courier-JournalLEXINGTON, Ky. — Democratic gubernatorial candidate Jonathan Miller said today that he would look to his running mate, Jefferson County Attorney Irv Maze, for guidance on criminal justice issues if elected.“When it comes to … issues that matter so deeply to Kentucky
families, whether it’s child support collection, whether it’s domestic violence, child abuse, elder abuse, I have as my running mate not only a leader in Jefferson County but a state leader on these issues,” Miller said at a press conference.abridged read it all here >> Read more:Elder
Book of the Month 'Beyond the Summit' by Linda Le Blanc 2007-04-12 14:15:00 Post Courtesy of NepalwriterTo learn more about the Sherpa tribe that makes climbing Everest possible, read Beyond the Summit
by Linda LeBlanc. Details of Sherpa culture and religion are interwoven in a tale of romance and high adventure. The story has something for everyone: a love affair between an American journalist and Sherpa guide, conflict between generations as the modern world challenges centuries of tradition, an expedition from the porter's point of view.Below are selections from reviews. To read the complete ones and excerpts go to http://www.beyondthesummit-novel.com/Beyond the Summit, is the rare gem that shows us the triumphs and challenges of a major climb from the porter’s point of view. The love of two people from diverse cultures is the fiery centerpiece of a novel that leads its readers through harshly beautiful and highly dangerous territory to the roof of the world. Malcolm Campbell, book reviewerThanks Nepalwriter, I haven't read the book but from your descr Read more:Month
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