| January 8, 2024 | Gail | 60077 | gailg@protonmail.com | My parents were turning 84 and had many health issues. My parents owned a small manufacturing company that they owned for 50 years with the property. My mom had COPD and cardiac issues, and she required oxygen 24/7. My dad had his health issues, but he had been an avid golfer most of his life until he began to develop cognitive issues. Dad had heart and cancer issues, and we started to see signs of forgetfulness. My parents did not live large and always put money away for their retirement. My mom would pay the home bills weekly and always gave to 5-8 charities weekly as well as she believed this was very important to her. They had paid all their liabilities on time and had an 800-credit score as their financial reward for their good fiscal lifestyle.
I would still pick up my dad every day and drive him to the office and back home. My mom was a housewife and maintained the house. My dad's cognitive issues started to get worse as things were leading into a severe case of dementia.
| An old friend of my late brother came back into our lives and within 9 months he used his trusted position as a good friend of the family and as a financial advisor to frighten them to make a financial choice to protect against the estate tax that could liquidate their estate if they both passed to pay the estate tax. (As we now come to understand, their estate wasn't large enough to have high estate tax ramification. This was the ploy to scare all of the seniors to purchase large life insurance policies.) He suggested they were "underinsured "and he proposed a large life insurance policy as a solution and told them that there would be no out of pocket expense. They were told this can be done using something called "Life Settlement" and that one of the 2 policies would be sold within 3-6 months on the secondary market. The sale would then pay for the 2nd policy in its entirety. Funding for all of this would be procured through a separate source. What we have come to know is that a few years before all this, the friend and advisor had committed 2 insurance felonies that he received a conviction for and only received a 3-month suspension of his insurance license and have is securities license revoked. The state never put this on the state's insurance portal to warn citizens of the state with the fact of these felonies, so as to make the choice to use the advisor for important financial decisions. Here the state is culpable for failure to protect seniors from financial fraud. As in the states own words after he paid a $10,000 fine, "he was not rehabilitated, but we will allow him to reinstate his insurance license. " The advisor cleared the path to write and get approved 2 -$2million life insurance policies. My parents had two $100,000+ policies that he advised them to stop paying and allow them to lapse. So when they passed there was no life insurance for their final expenses.
What my parents were not told is the key to the scheme. The unsuspected direction of this sinister plot was that this was a "STOLI", a financial vehicle strongly opposed by life insurance companies and illegal in our state, and yet with all their knowledge in this illegal concept, the insurance company would continue to underwrite and eventually approve the policies. This was pure negligence on behalf of the insurance company, and the insurance company's own lead attorney, after the fact, stated that all of this should have been looked at, reviewed and the underwriting stopped, so no policies should have been issued. Insurance companies are part of the first line of defense through their compliance with regards to protecting their clients when red flags rise up. They failed in this endeavor.
Also, part of this type of scheme included a large loan that was disguised as premium financing and was never explained to the elderly couples that this was how the life insurance was to be funded, and they were not advised that they were responsible for these loans. Unbeknownst to the elderly couples, once these policies are placed and the loans complete, hundreds of thousands of dollars in commissions are paid out and distributed to the insurance agent, bankers, attorneys and other individuals involved. Transparency was removed from these transactions as paperwork was shuffled in front of the seniors with signatures requested with no explanation on blank pages and just told "trust me, I will fill the paperwork for you". All communication was between the bank, the advisor, the attorneys and the phony CPA "Only" on all matters of contracts, loans and other financial information.
| We are told that a bank is the first line of defense in protecting its elderly (All) clients from financial malfeasance. Unbeknownst to them a new startup bank with minimal assets received their financial/credit information from the phony CPA who was introduced to my parents by their advisor. The bank that was supposed to protect the seniors, to not be part of any fraud, but instead concealed all pertinent communication from them sharing with others and when the situation became delicate to financial abuse the bank committed identity theft, forgery and willful blindness instead. The insurance broker passed on all their financial information to a phony CPA, this new bank,45 miles away from my parents( they never used another bank in their 55 years of marriage till this event), an attorney who they never met, who was disciplined a few years earlier for using his personal IOLTA as his personal piggy bank and not paying premiums for life insurance policies where he was the trustee. This was reported to the ARDC (attorney registration and discipline commission) by a major law firm he worked with. He was suspended for under 6 months. My parents were not aware of his past history, but were told they needed to use him because of his expertise in these kinds of trusts. The attorney who drew up a Special Trust and Family Trust on my dad and my mom, who he had never met, spoken with or at any time communicated with them and yet was able to get the two trusts notarized without meeting with my parents. We have recently found out how my parents were defrauded by all the thieves. The documents were brought to a notary who worked with the phony CPA. Under a deposition, the notary admitted she never met either of my parents and many times she would notarize documents for coworkers without following guidelines set by the state for notaries. Her attorney and my attorney were sitting there with their mouths open as she admitted she never saw the documents for my parents that she signed off on and notarized.
2 attorneys, who were partners, one who had been suspended for financial malfeasance and the other was a catholic priest who was laicized for child molestation, a case that went all the way up to the Vatican (noted in state documents about priest who committed child sexual abuse as priests), is somehow still practicing law.
| White collar criminals, especially those who willfully abuse the elderly and other vulnerable human beings, should be fully prosecuted. White collar is the least prosecuted because who would believe a bank(owner,president and vice president) would willfully commit senior financial fraud. The CFPB found the fraud, reported it to the Federal Reserve who did nothing because the loans were secured by the home and business property. The fraudulent action of the 2 attorneys, the bank, the phony CPA and the advisor should all have been prosecuted and sent off to do time for their crimes against humanity. Instead, seniors who worked hard all their lives, saved for easy and financially successful retirement, were sacrificial lambs who struggled to put food on their table, pay their bills and afford their necessary medical needs died penniless and without the dignity they deserved. Talking about elder care is not sexy. It does not draw the same attention as talking about some other major issues impacting our country right now or the death of loved ones, the break-ups, whatever it might be. But it's important and it's essential. My parents were one of many thousands who are manipulated, defrauded and are exploited for about $8 Billion each year..This group of individuals alone defrauded my parents and at least 19 other seniors. I want to ensure that this doesn't happen to other families.
My mom's dying words were " I am the charity case, and this is not where I was supposed to die."
| Yes | Yes | Yes | What we have come to realize this year with all the failures of many banks sheds light on the sheer negligence of our banking institutions, the failure of the law to protect senior citizens at every level, and an abundance of fraudulent activity that this story begins to expose. There were forged signatures, inflated financial statements, negligence on behalf of the insurance company, banking fraud and numerous other failures within the financial system. I am constantly reminded that the law, both federal, local and state, failed my family in very catastrophic ways. No one should have their name ruined or die penniless because they were defrauded when all they did was work hard all their life so they could retire comfortably without government, family or any other intervention. Everyone deserves to live their life in a dignified fashion, especially in their retirement years.
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| July 16, 2023 | Charles | 23111 | hiltonvillage2018@gmail.com | I am a 77-year-old retired geriatrician. I moved into a Continuing Care Retirement Community four years ago. I am enrolled in traditional fee-for-service Medicare. I am in relatively good health, although I have had an inguinal hernia repair and a total right hip replacement in the past two years. I am concerned about future healthcare.
I have become aware that private corporations are taking over Medicare (they plan to complete this by 2030) using an innovative program started by the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation. It is currently called ACO REACH. This program will replace my traditional Medicare with an inferior privatized Medicare type of insurance.
As an academic internist with boards in internal medicine, geriatrics, and palliative medicine (when I retired in 2009), I helped a medical school set up a geriatrics training program, and we certainly taught and worked to confront elder abuse, neglect, and fraud.
There is a need to collect stories of how privatized care harms seniors and educate the public about this program.
| ACO REACH was started by Trump associates (a dormmate of Jerome Kirshner) expressly to place all of Medicare under private corporations. The initial program was called Direct Contracting. The details were worked out so that physicians would switch seniors' billings (invoices) from the government to private companies without the permission of seniors. Physicians were offered benefits, and they proved willing to switch. After all, physicians are underpaid by Medicare and feel no great allegiance to the program. This will have a devastating effect on the sickest of seniors. They will no longer have insurance. The program was renamed ACO REACH (under Biden) essentially to confuse both the public and physicians about the nature of the program. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) supports this program. Only the Secretary of Health and Human Services can cancel it (according to legislation written to protect innovations). Wall Street stands to make billions of dollars (estimates are that they could keep 35% of government dollars). Politicians are being aggressively lobbied and given large donations. The public is in the dark.
| ACO REACH looks to be a significant future perpetrator of elder abuse, neglect, and fraud. It needs to be publicized, confronted and stopped. Most seniors learn of the program when they receive a letter from their physician practice telling them they are now under this new program. Their only recourse is to seek new providers. CMS uses a policy of "auto-aligning" patients to ACO REACH if one physician who has provided care is in the program and their billing exceeds 10%. Currently, seniors who find privatization under Medicare Advantage unacceptable can switch to traditional Medicare (although with problems obtaining Medicap coverage). This will go away. There will be no more traditional Medicare to switch to. CMS has announced plans to convert all of Medicare to ACO REACH by 2030. There is a difference between health insurance permitting physicians to order and prescribe what is needed and having a private company that decides what will be paid for.
| What is my hope? That the Senior Lobby would rise and make this an issue of national importance. Private companies use limited panels of providers, denials of service requests, and payment refusals to accomplish their goal - to profit from the government's funds. Medicare Advantage has cost the government more and cornered the mostly healthy seniors. If all of Medicare becomes privatized, seniors will either face denials of service or pay for service out-of-pocket. This is different from what most of us planned for in retirement. This is not how Medicare was set up to provide services. It will take a significant effort on the part of organizations like yours to stop this program. You will face major corporations with deep pockets, politicians indoctrinated in the advantages of private companies providing better care than the government, and a public unaware of what is happening. CMS argues that private companies will provide better care more economically than the government. The facts do not bear this out.
| Yes | Yes | Yes | My role is to draw attention to the developing problem. I am not a politician and need help to understand the process of using local or national media. My submission of an article to our local paper was denied publication. AARP is primarily funded by United Healthcare which stands to profit from ACO REACH, so they cannot speak honestly. Most politicians remain unaware of the looming problem and are content to entertain lobbyists and collect donations. Most media outlets seem reluctant to publicize such a controversial confrontation.
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| August 22, 2023 | Alphonse | 70802 | Alphonse.Noel@La.Gov | As a retiree of an agency that investigated abuse and neglect of person's with disabilities, the multitude of stories regarding elders and the disabled populations are endless. It is amazing how many people know about abuses, but not how to report or proceed with assisting. Since retiring a year ago and returning part-time to the agency, I work in a role that involves program monitoring. Doing listening sessions throughout the state revealed that an unusually high number of people don't know that an agency exist to help elders and disabled going through such situations. Allegations consist of physical abuse, sexual abuse, exploitation, extortion, and neglect.
| Although people like to be shielded from hearing the reality of the hurt and pain that our revered, who deserves our deepest respect, are enduring - it might benefit society to be more open in that there might be more assistance provided to protect, prevent, and help in the recovery of abuses. So many victims suffer in silence as the heartbreaking fact of the matter is that the abuses are, many times, committed by close family members. Societal and cultural beliefs can often determine a person's position on letting another family member - let alone law enforcement and the like - know about what is occurring. As in the issue of Child Protective Services programs, the victim may be further abuse by threats from the perpetrator should the victim report. Children feel further abused by being removed from their home; leaving their school; leaving the family pet(s); being ostracized by family; feeling sneered at by others who might know the situation; etc. The same applies to the adult population. Also, sad as it might be, it is not guaranteed that those who receive certain reports will handle the matter correctly and not make the situation worse. The hard truth of the matter is that there needs to be an offer of resources to the victim that will create positive permanency that just might not exist. Whereas, the victim may be left in the physical care of the accused. Advocacy of the highest level is a must.
| I wish that people understood that it does not take a scholar to determine that someone's needs are not being met and that this include medical, nutrition, shelter, emotional, financial, etc. Knowing when and whom to report is key. Turning a blind eye does not make the situation better. Some - including me - may find empathizing and placing themselves in the same situation. To effectuate a change can often be as simple as determining how would you want yourself or a loved-one to be treated? Would you appreciate someone walking away if it was your mother? Would you be happy to hear that the alleged victim died due to something that you could have reported? You do not have to have a "Holier than though" attitude to submit to decency and love for your fellow brethren.
| Ultimately, it is not being realistic that we will live in a utopia of euphoria. However, I'm hopeful that we will put more effort into taking care of our less fortunate devoid race, religion, aesthetics, financial status, etc. This would involved city, county, state, federal participation. If we could revisit yesteryear when it took a village to make this thing called life work, I believe that it would make our existence so much better.
| Yes | Yes | No | As I work in an agency whose policies involve designated employees to speak to media, I cannot talk to such groups. With agency permission, I can advocate for the agency by being a part of a panel, presentation, and the like.
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| December 13, 2022 | Wendy Wise | 30120 | 7708518610 | My dad and mom live with me. My dad was just diagnosed with Dementia in Nov of 2021. He was functioning 100% on his own even after a bout with Covid in June of 2022.
| Good Morning:
August of 2022, I took my 81 year old dad to ER in Rome, GA. He had mild dementia. In the hospital they were not able to get a urine specimen or an IV started. He kept getting out of bed to try and pee then couldn't. They gave him Ativan "for agitation". I said he has to pee but can't he isn't mad he just can't stay in bed when he has to pee. They finally said he has an enlarged prostate and to follow up with pcp on Monday, this was a Saturday. Sunday morning we called his home therapy (from different incident w/covid) and she said take him back to ER now!! We did he had over 1500 CC in his bladder. Then sent him home with Foley. He still kept trying to get out of bed to pee so I gave him an Ativan to "calm him" per dr. He got very violent and angry. We called ambulance to take him back to ER and it was horrible from there. Hospital kept giving him meds (Ativan) even when I told them not to they made him angry etc. Every day it was more and more. Come to find out all the meds they were giving him they should not have because of his dementia-his reaction was not positive. They WOULD NOT listen to me.
Then they discharged him (after I had to fight with Insurance) to a REHAB, because he was not steady on his feet. Rehab was not the best but tolerable as he could walk. Rehab sent him home (due to insurance) after about 9 days I think.
He fell at home (due to meds his pcp gave him for sleep from what I am being told) and broke his hip.
Hospital sent him back to same rehab where the neglect began. He go there on a Tuesday.
a) didn't get ANY form of therapy until the next week.
b) Falls were NOT reported to me (now remember the man couldn't walk) but he had head injury and rib bruises.
c) then his incision "reopened" and he needed 7 staples again, I walked in on him layin in a dirty diaper-with his incision NOT covered.
d) I walked in on him sitting up in his bed with breakfast spilled on him with his staples coming out sitting in his food.
We got him out of that REHAB to a different one.
e) was admitted to ER 2 times while in this facility for "accidents"- I have pics
They were trying to follow up with dr on hip. The dr who did his surgery quit. So come to find out NO follow up had been done to my knowledge, not even in hospital!
They finally got him to the Practice of dr who did dads hip surgery, and it was infected he had to immediately go for a debridement. Which then caused the hospital to give him MORE antipsychotics-which I told them not too AND Ativan, etc was on his allergy list by this time.
My dad is now on hospice. Lost about 100 lbs since August. Won't eat (another story from 1st rehab-where he started all of a sudden choking when eating. And sleeping all of a sudden -his roomate said they were giving him shots to keep him calm)
So much abuse. I have tried to call lawyers who say there is a case but no one calls back.
I did report his last ER hospital stay from 1st Rehab to APS-have not heard back.
There is much more to tell, this is just the highlights of neglect and abuse from the hospital as well as the Rehab facility.
| I wish us families were able to report this abuse and people believe us. I am tired of hearing well he has lived a good life. He WAS NOT that sick!
| To help others in abusive Rehab/nursing homes.
| Yes | Yes | Yes | Please help the elderly suffering in these conditions!
At this point no one can help my dad, but I want to help the others suffering. Their families have no idea, especially if they come to the facility the same time of day. Its when you "pop in" you see the real treatment.
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| February 28, 2024 | Roslund | 49316 | 6164662255 | Yes its too much to type. But I would like for someone to contact me.
| Moms abuse, neglect and neglect by APS and Probate
| Its real! And family members are common perpertators of elder abuse
| To have Mom removed from professional guardianship that has done nothing for her and she was placed in this guardianship by a judge who did not follow the law
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| October 21, 2022 | wendy | 32444 | 8506910592 | My aunt recently passed after suffering from Alzheimer's in a long-term care facility. Fortunately, she had family to visit and advocate on her behalf to ensure that she was treated well and her needs were met so that she could enjoy her final years in peace.
| I work for the Florida Department of Children and Families in Adult Services. We have been struggling for a few years to maintain staff due to the low salary of our Adult Protective Investigators (API). The salary for an API with a bachelor's degree is $33,783.62 and $47,500.18/annually for a supervisor. That breaks down to 1407.65 per paycheck so if an API has to pay month rent, groceries, electric, car payment, car insurance, fuel that doesn't leave much room for saving money. The average wage for an API across the US is 45,576 so we are more than $20,000.00 below the average with the largest growing elderly population is the US. There is no way for a single person to come work for us without having to go get another job to supplement their lack of income from being an API.
The rising cost of fuel, food and housing is at an all-time high while are wages are at an all-time low. We only get fuel reimbursement of .44 cents while the Federal fuel reimbursement is 58.6 cents and the only way to claim the difference is to file long form which is not likely for these API's.
Please help the Adult Services Program get an increase in wages so that we can hire more staff to ensure the safety of our most vulnerable adults.
Thank you for your time.
| That they are most likely abused, neglected and exploited by their own relatives.
| To have enough community providers for the services need to keep our senior in the least restrictive setting, which is their homes.. To get more funding for in home services to assist caregivers, respite programs, housekeeping, personal care, transportation, financial management, home repairs, building ramps, installing handrails and energy assistance to keep their costs low.
To have a program started where babies are taken into nursing homes for the elders to nurture and in turn the children will get a bonus grandparent.
That everyone knows they are responsible for reporting any suspected abuse, neglect, exploitation or self-neglect.
| Yes | Yes | Yes | We need to take of the one's that raised us!
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| February 25, 2025 | Brittany Grate Gaines | 90061 | Bgrate88@gmail.com | I am reaching out to bring awareness to the heartbreaking story of my grandmother Margaret Jennings, a beloved mother who was betrayed by three of her own children over money and property. Despite winning her legal battle in Jennings v. Jennings, No.
B327268 (Cal. Ct. App. Dec. 28, 2023), justice remains incomplete. Her children were found guilty of fraud and financial elder abuse, yet they refused to pay what they owed, instead choosing to wait for her to pass.
Margaret spent the last years of her life grieving the loss of her children-not through death, but through their own abandonment. They never sought forgiveness, never attempted to make things right. And now, after ignoring her for over five years, they want control over her funeral arrangements which is being held March 4th, 2025.
Even in death, her fight for justice continues. Margaret's attorneys have been unable to locate one of the defendants to serve her, delaying the accountability she deserved. Elder abuse is a silent epidemic, and Margaret's story is proof of how the legal system often fails to fully protect victims.
This is not just about Margaret-it is about every vulnerable elder who is financially exploited by those they trust most. We need to shed light on her story to prevent this from happening to others. I would love to discuss this further and provide any necessary documentation, including court records and personal testimonies.
Please help us bring justice to Margaret Jennings and raise awareness about elder financial abuse. Let's make sure her story is heard.
Thank you for your time and consideration.
| My grandmother died with a broken heart a day before her birthday
02/14/26-2/13/2025
| It typically done by trusted love ones.
| There should be something in place where elders no matter their financial status can have resources and help
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| February 20, 2025 | Robert | 19335 | 484-252-9596 | Walked into the hospital with my most beautiful precious beloved mom with absolutely nothing anywhere near life-threatening wrong with her at all.
| My experience trying to get justice.
| Due to complete systematic failure and refusal to enforce laws in place to protect the public, our most precious beloved vulnerable elderly are being mass slaughtered at numbers over ten times higher than ever before in history in Pennsylvania hospitals completely unchecked and unrestrained.
| The doctor that killed my mom gets arrested and properly charged, and nobody again has to go through what I have, and am still suffering.
| Yes | Yes | Yes | Please contact me please !!!! Thank you.
https://youtu.be/-BnM8OPX4-I?feature=shared
Why is 20% rise in malaria in Africa from natural causes, or a select few cases of measles in Texas captures the solemn attention of local and world news, top scientists, the World Health Organization...ect, BUT ASTRONOMICALLY HYPER-ESCALATED, MORE THAN TEN TIMES HIGHER THAN EVER BEFORE NUMBERS OF OUR MOST PRECIOUS BELOVED ELDERLY, BEING WRONGFULLY KILLED IN PENNSYLVANIA MEDICAL FACILITIES, NOT ONLY GETS NO ATTENTION AT ALL, BUT CONVERSELY GETS WIDESPREAD COVER-UP, AND IS SYSTEMATICLY PERPETUATED AND ENCOURAGED BY ABSOLUTE REFUSAL OF AUTHORITIES TO ENFORCE THE LAWS IN PLACE TO PROTECT THE PUBLIC.
Nothing short of state sponsored, blatant, intentional mass serial manslaughter homicide of our most precious beloved vulnerable eldely.
Pennsylvania, the Elder Manslaughter State.
Letter to my Pastor:
Jack, There is just no way to win in this battle in this life in this so sickeningly deep dark evil world, thoroughly and completely run, controlled, and owned by the devil.
I cannot live with myself if I ever give-up, but the Chester County DA, the Medical Board, Law enforcement, all of our local, state and federal officials and represenatives, are the exact opposite of everything they are supposed to stand for. There is not a shred of integrity in any of them. By thier own written law they are all accesories after the fact in the gruesome horrific wrongful killing of my most beautiful, wonderful, sweet, kind, gentle, loving, caring, precious beloved mom. I have gone over and over the laws and statutes and everything there is to understand about the way it is supposed to be, and the ones running things are the very worst criminals of them all, far worse than probably just about any criminal who they lock up. Far far worse. Even after filing detailed reports of Chester County DA de Barrena-Sarobe's open violation of the, Crime Victims Rights Act of 2004 in person at the office of the US Attorney in Philadelphia, the highest legal official in Pennsylvania, he still hasn't ever even honored my legal right to confer with him, the government attorney on the private criminal complaint I filed against the doctor who very clearly 1) had a professional duty of care, 2) grossly breached that duty of care, which I have medical professional documented proof of, 3) that breach of duty caused injury, 4) the extent of that injury was death. The four factors of negligent homicide in a medical setting. In his knowledge of the crime, and use of his position to protect the killer, by the very law that he is supposed to represent, the DA is a criminal accesory after the fact, and one of the head perpetuators of the over 1000% unimaginably hyper-escalated rate of wrongful elder death currently slaughtering the hell out of our vulnerable elderly population en masse in Pennsylvania, including my precious beloved mom. The the overseer of the rampant disposal of our most vulnerable precious beloved elderly.
My whole family and extended family devastated. My poor old dad lost in life without his loving wife of 60yrs. No more big ladies trips to Atlantic City that relatives came from across the country for that my mom was the center of. No more Christmases with grandma. The One so special day that we all lived all through the year in anxious anticipation of, that made anything we had gone through all year to get there worth it.
My mom did not go to the hospital dying and they were unable to save her.
I walked in there with her with nothing anywhere near life-threatening wrong with her at all, and spent the next months all day every day by her side through the long torturous excruciating screaming in agony, heeeeelp meeeeee, aaaaaaa, it huuuuuurts, aaaaaa, heeeeeelp meeeee, aaaaaaaaaa, not from anything to do with anything she went in there for, or any exsisting condition. Solely from that terrible careless heartless souless wicked doctors blatant gross extreme negligence and severe malpractice. And not even by mere mistake. Performing an inappropriate procedure that even the US Agency for Hospital Research and Quality determined no reasonable doctor would have done, and then when that incision that never should have been made became infected, absolutely refusing against the adamant urging, begging and pleading of a professional home nurse and me to see her promptly, resulting in that infection localized to a small improper incision that never should have been made to begin with, traveling into her bloodstream and throughout her body and vital organs until she collapsed on the floor, and even then when she was rushed by ambulance back in to him, he severely botched the correctional procedure and quickly forced her back out to the rehab against my trying to do everything I could to keep her in as I could see she was in no condition, and even the rehab put her back in an ambulance and sent her back, before we finally got her the heck out of there to another hospital/doctor who upon sight of what Dr Hayes had done to her in Chester County Hospital, was visibly angry and couldn't hold back from belting out, what was that doctor doing, he had to of known this had no chance of working, rushing her into to the operating room to try to fix too late what he had done to her. Jack that's too much already and there's alot more. That doctor clearly killed my mom and I have multiple documented medical professional testimonies proving it.
In over a year doing everything that can possibly be done to at least try to get some kind of justice for what was done to my beautiful, wonderful, sweet, kind and gentle, precious beloved mom, all I find is pure evil and corruption to the depths of hell on earth. I couldn't even hear a word said in the AA meeting tonight. All I could do is think how/if I can go on living in this sickening wicked evil devils world. At what point do I just check myself out? I thank God for you Jack. You are a mighty presence for Him in this sick rotten evil world. I thank God most of all that i know Jesus, and that He has made His Truth so clear to me, that you certainly played a big role in, along with my very special grandma, my moms mom. I feel secure that He knows all of this, and of course far more than any mere human mind could ever contain, and I don't care what anyone says, in times when I'm thinking about it, even if I checked-out of this sickening evil rotten devils world by my own hand, He would be there with open arms, probably saying He's been expecting me, I endured quite well enough.
Bob Snodgrass 484-252-9596
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| January 27, 2023 | Jackie Oliver | 73439 | 580-564-7555 | I am a 62 yo disabled woman in Kingston, Ok. I own 2 1/2 acres with my house and mine and Mom's old house. My mother was my sole caregiver most of my life. Until she was beaten to death in Madill, Ok. nursing home In 2017. After that my family was torn apart leaving me alone. But I was fine until October of 2021 when strangers come to my property and just moved in to my old home without my permission. I told them on day one they were trespassing and to get off of my private property but they stayed and and immediately began stealing my electric and water. I called the sheriff and APS and they came right out and he told me he knew them and they cook meth but he lost track of them! I told him to please make them leave! But I never heard from them again! There were 4 men, a woman and 2 children. The woman's name is Tiffany Broadhead and I wasn't afraid of the men so much but she truly is a psychopath and on researching I found her name was even on a gov watchlist. And her sister is a now an under sheriff in my my county! As time went on they would punish me every time I made them mad like move my trash can and/or use it so I couldn't. They got my OGE acct that I've had for 40 years and opened me a new one and I had no idea, it took me months to figure it out and it's still not fixed! I had to pay a 1000.00 oge bill one month! I can't afford all this! They rigged the electric box stealing mine first and that caused damage to my home so half the electric in my home has been off ever since. I couldn't get oge to understand and I've been locked out of my acct. to this day! Some months later I got a new bill with a new acct and had to pay that thousand dollar bill. I did find out her sister was a jailer! Everything just got worse from there because my brain shut down and I had a water leak and didn't know it so my home is now destroyed so I have to move because of mold and my rare lung disease and heart failure. There's so much more and one man was still here till a couple weeks ago. But not one person in DHS or APS would help me and it's been over a year and I don't understand! I have 3 notebooks of notes and would only converse with them by texts and took pics of everything! Tiffany was jailed a few months back for assult! Her sister was also just bumped up to undersheriff. And because of how I've been treated something smells there too! I went to college in aeronautical engineering so I'm not stupid! Just old and disabled and now severely abused and mad as hell! Please consider helping me. All the stress has made my heart failure so much worse and I know it can't be fixed. Thank you for your time! I'm scared to death to leave my home but I must because my pharmacy just will not deliver my meds anymore and post traumatic stress makes it impossible for me to go outside. I no longer believe that I'm in my USA because I can't fathom what in the world I'm supposed to do because these people felt entitled and my home is destroyed and no one will HELP ME!!!!!!!
Thank you!
Jackie Oliver
580-564-7555
9746 Rattler Ridge, Kingston, OK. 73439
| That I'm on SSI and I own my that's paid for but now has to be demolished because of mold! And I just do not understand why my government has allowed it because I've been screaming at the top of my lungs for help for over a year! And now I'll have to find a place to live and the government will have to help me when I owned my own home! They were trespassers and should have been removed from my property the day I call the sheriff! I'm not even sure this world is worth kiving in anymore if people are allowed to do this to me here! I'm not safe anywhere!
| That it's devastating to my life and my health and my home!
| That the people who done this to me goes to prison!!!!!
| Yes | Yes | Yes | I know I do not have much more time on this earth solely because of the severe psychological and financial abuse I endured for over a year while no one would help me! So not only did they steal my land and property, they stold my life! Just like my mother and my sole caretaker who was murdered in the Madill Oklahoma nusing home in 2017 and the same sheriff that wouldn't help me also refused to investigate her death, her murder! Something is seriously wrong here and you couldn't prove to me that I am living in the USA if you tried!!!
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| March 21, 2023 | Stephanie Morris | Indian trail nc | 8038043665 | I am currently having this issue it's my children coming at me because their father was abusive and now 35 years later he's instructing them to do the same and they are acting like they are puppets of his it's been so bad I had to let myself get evicted in order to just get a little distance between us..I'm from south Carolina but am now living in my car in north Carolina I've made over a hundred calls to the city police and sheriff's office to no avail because they are related to my ex they won't help me actually just the opposite they help him come at me they even tried psychological warfare on me but I figured out what they were doing and learned hoe to stop that...however they are still hacked into my phones and Ema accounts they follow me everywhere I go and I'm truly afraid for my life all they ever want from me is money more money but they have broke me I have nothing left now they say they will take my monthly check and also force me to take out large life insurance policies making them the beneficiary I'm terrified all the time now but I can't give up I pray someone will help me stop them before they kill me
| | It's truly a terrifying thing to experience especially from people you think should love you
| That someone will soon help me stop them before they kill me
| Yes | Yes | Yes | Just please help me stop them
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| November 13, 2022 | Liza | 60616 | Lhicks0707@gmail.com 773.425.8487 | My elderly friend, went to visit her daughter in Seattle, WA from Chicago in July of 2016 and never returned as she was promised. Her daughter manipulated her in to staying because the daughter was being sued at the time for her home with former deceased husband by his family members.
| | My dear elderly friend, who's been a friend of my family for 80 years isn't being treated with respect, dignity and honor at the golden age of 98. She's been deliberately deprived of her cell phone so I have no way of knowing her current status. To say the least, I'm heart broken and want to shine a light on this elderly injustice. The last time I saw here was June 24,2022 and she had poor hygiene, open untreated wounds on her lower extremities and her feet was riddled with fungus. I have pictures to prove it and have shared them with DSHS/APS.
The perpetrators is her daughter a performing Arts teacher at an elite private high school in Seattle and son-in-law who is medical doctor affiliated with a top hospital. I filed a complaint on June 23, 2022 with DSHS/APS and have been in touch with the investigator but given almost nothing regarding her status except the case is still active. The last time I spoke with my elderly friend, she begged her caretaker to call me and ask me to return to Seattle because after deep thought the only thing she could do is leave the house. I've reached out to her daughter and son-in-law asking if I can talk to her or come to see her and they sent me a text message describing criminal trespassing. I recently visited Seattle 11/01/2022 and was denied the right to talk or visit with her despite her telling SPD she wanted to see me. I feel powerless, when challenging a physician and feel justice will not be served because of his title. Death is the last thing we do in life and should be done gracefully. Thank you for reading my message.
#seniorsmatter
| That it could happen to anyone, no matter their financial situation, education level, living arrangements (nursing home or family home).
| Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes, I have many pictures, audio recordings, text messages and written documents to share.
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| February 2, 2024 | Samantha Demchak | 97383 | 503-851-4156 | My name is Samantha and I have been working in the senior living industry for several years. I recently came across a distressing situation involving an elderly lady in need of assistance, and I am reaching out to you in the hope that you or your organization may be able to help.
The woman in question, let's refer to her as Mrs. G. is currently facing a challenging situation. She is without family support, as her husband has passed away, and her son has been exploiting her financially for years. Mrs. G is in her 80s, and her struggles have been exacerbated by a lack of awareness and guidance.
In 2017, she entered into an agreement with a company called Unison, which is listed as a home investment group. They provided her with what they termed a "$40,000.00 loan" under the guise of an investment. The terms are troubling, as there are no interest or payment requirements until the sale of her home. However, upon selling, Unison intends to charge a staggering 61.75% of the growth of the home. The estimated repayment, based on the current home value of $425,000.00, would amount to $168,440.00.
Given Mrs. G's circumstances, this repayment scheme leaves her with inadequate funds to cover the costs of Assisted Living, which she desperately needs. What's more concerning is that she did not receive proper counsel before entering into this agreement, and her vulnerability was exploited.
I am reaching out to you in the hope that your expertise and influence may help bring attention to this situation. It is my sincere belief that the terms of this agreement are exploitative and unjust, especially considering Mrs. G's vulnerable state and lack of proper guidance during the signing process.
I would greatly appreciate any assistance, advice, or advocacy you can offer to help rectify this situation and prevent further exploitation of vulnerable seniors. If you require additional information or if there's a specific channel through which I should address this matter, please let me know.
Thank you for your time and consideration. I look forward to any support you may be able to provide in helping Mrs. G. navigate this challenging situation.
| That seniors are being taken advantage of - Senior living is SO expensive and when someone plans to sell their house to pay for it and you find this out - it is sentencing her to death in her house. She will certainly fall and not be able to get help.
| That is happens all the time. It is so easy to scam people and the interest rate of 61.75% should be illegal.
| That I can save this lady and help her get into an assisted living community.
| Yes | Yes | Yes | Please help.
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| July 22, 2023 | Liza | 60616 | Lhicks0707@gmail.com | To whom it may concern;
My dear elderly friend Margie L. Smith who lives in Seattle, WA, who's been a friend of my family for 80 years isn't being treated with respect, dignity and honor at the golden age of 99. She's been deliberately deprived of her cell phone so I have no way of knowing her current status. To say the least, I'm heart broken and want to shine a light on this elderly injustice. The perpetrators is her narcissist daughter a retired performing Arts teacher at Seattle Academy and son-in-law who is medical doctor, active license with conditions. I filed a complaint on June 23, 2022 with dshs and from my knowledge the investigator didn't go to the house until September 27, 2022, which give them enough time to cover up the abuse. I'm baffled at how this doctor uses multiple names and pictures to deceive the public and get away with it. I've reached out to her daughter and son-in-law asking if I can talk to her or come to see her and they sent me a text message describing criminal trespassing. I feel powerless, when challenging a physician and feel justice will not be served because of his title. My daughter and I have traveled to Seattle three times last year 2022 and the last visit they refused to let us visit, despite the police going to the house and Margie telling the officers she would like to see me. The daughter and son-in-law made false claims about me. This has been traumatizing and heartbreaking for us. We were very close, like family.
DSHS/APS hasn't given me an explanation for their delayed response in visiting Margie and there findings. I would like an investigation of DSHS/APS files pertaining to this case and how it was conducted. Please help me, help my elderly friend. If you have any questions please email or call me @773.425.8487.
Respectful,
Liza Hicks
| Elder abuse is real and not only happens to individuals from low income families or persons in nursing homes. Friends can be closer than family but the law doesn't recognize such relationships. Grieving a live person is the hardest thing I've endured in my life.
| I wish I was more knowledgeable/aware about emotional abuse.
| That elder abuse would be taken more seriously and that elders are treated with the respect, dignity and love they deserve.
| Yes | Yes | Yes | Please contact me with any questions, I have audio recordings and photos to back up my words. Thank you.
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| October 8, 2023 | Pamela | 61475-8459 | pamela.wisslead0613@gmail.com | My mother-in-law was diagnosed with moderate to severe Alzheimer's dementia type in October of 2015. Within 2 weeks my brother-in-law and his wife (who took her to the diagnosed neurologist appointment) took her to her bank and began changing beneficiaries on accounts. Since that time they have had her sign to replace her long hired attorney, changed beneficiaries on all her bank accounts, closed out some accounts and moved them out of state, hired 2 new attorneys, changed POA, trustees of trust, revoked the trust, had her sign a new will, placed her in a nursing home and refuses to let us see her, took the farming operation away from my husband (, (who had farmed it with his father all his life, my fil passed away in 2007 and my husband continued to farm for his mother on an oral contract). We were advised to get guardianship. That fell through b/c of a technicality. We took them to court in2006, and we are still fighting to get things put back the way they were. We were told to report them to APS. we did but when APS went to my mil house, she said nothing was wrong and referred APS to her POA(her son who is taking advantage). Her son also took her to local businesses and wrote checks for larger amounts over the purchases to have extra cash. He also did not rebuild her house that was damaged by straight line winds. He put the insurance check into an account that will go to him when his mother passes away. This house was to be left to another brother and now is worthless. As I said, we reported to APS and one of her banks reported, as well as our State Representative Norrine Hammonds office and the APS office in Peria Il. that is over the local APS office in Quincy Illinois that we delt with.
| Reporting to our local APS was a waste of time. My mil does not know anything about what goes on in the world, she cannot make financial decisions (this was documented by a GAL report and by several health care professionals), and her only concern when APS visited her house was where she was going to get a ride to the local coffee shop b/c that is what the sister in law did for her daily after the sister in law quit her job at a local university. This was a plan that they decided to do and has cost us money for attorneys, loss of income from the farm for 5 years and has taken a mental toll on not only my husband and myself but our 3 grown children. APS needs to talk to all family members.
| This type of abuse is planned by family members and kept secretive about making changes. By the time we found out about several discrepancies it was difficult to get anything reversed. Even though my mil attorney sent letters out to all of us to leave her estate plan alone. It was what she wanted. He even threatened how the mis use of POA can bring certain charges. It seems like it is difficult to "prove" my mil state of mind and they knew it was going to be an arduous task for us to prove they had brainwashed her and get the changes they made reversed. They were smart enough to always have my mil sign all documents. I know in my heart she did not know what she was signing.
| That APS can interview family members. They should have sat with us and asked appropriate questions. They should have taken into account that a bank, state rep office and a higher APS office made the request to look into this family problem. When an elderly person has dementia, they cannot think or rationalize clearly. It should not matter what degree of cognitive disability they have.
| Yes | Yes | Yes | We are also so frustrated with the court system. We are placed on delays constantly. We would like to be involved with making some changes about elderly that have a cognitive diagnosis and at least asking all immediate family members to be involved in decision making. APS needs to be able to talk to the elderly person without consent from the POA. They also should reach out to other family members to understand the scope of the problem.
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| August 22, 2023 | Liza | 60616 | 7734258487 | The abuse became concerning to my grandmother when Margie husband died, her daughter started asking for large sums of money but wasn't being attentive to her. It became noticeable to me when her daughter told her to visit with her in Seattle for a while but then she never returned and lost control of all her assets and freedom of life.
| To whom it may concern;
My dear elderly friend Margie L. Smith who lives in Seattle, WA, who's been a friend of my family for 80 years isn't being treated with respect, dignity and honor at the golden age of 99. She's been deliberately deprived of her cell phone so I have no way of knowing her current status. To say the least, I'm heart broken and want to shine a light on this elderly injustice. The perpetrators is her narcissist daughter a retired performing Arts teacher in Seattle and son-in-law who is medical doctor, active license with conditions. I filed a complaint on June 23, 2022 with dshs and from my knowledge the investigator didn't go to the house until September 27, 2022, which give them enough time to cover up the abuse. I'm baffled at how this doctor uses multiple names and pictures to deceive the public and get away with it. I've reached out to her daughter and son-in-law asking if I can talk to her or come to see her and they sent me a text message describing criminal trespassing. I feel powerless, when challenging a physician and feel justice will not be served because of his title. My daughter and I have traveled to Seattle three times last year 2022 and the last visit they refused to let us visit, despite the police going to the house and Margie telling the officers she would like to see me. The daughter and son-in-law made false claims about me to the officers. This has been traumatizing and heartbreaking for us. We were very close, like family.
DSHS/APS hasn't given me an explanation for their delayed response in visiting Margie and there findings. I would like an investigation of DSHS/APS files pertaining to this case and how it was conducted.
I have photos, video, text messages and audio recordings.
| What is important for people to know about elder abuse, neglect and fraud is that it can happen to anybody, no matter there professional background and assets. The perpetrators are not only unrelated but most case are from family members.
| That all elders will live their best life with dignity, respect, love and support. I hope that one day all elders will have access to assist living care if needed.
I will like a law in all 50 states that enforce for any individual 90 years old or more bi-annual in home visits from a hospital gerontology social worker and a in hospital annual visit with a geriatrics doctor.
gerontology annual visit
Adult Protective services policies and procedures need updating and more accountability for their case decisions.
| Yes | Yes | Yes | I have pictures depicting the abuse my dear friend had to endure. How can I get them to you via email?
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| January 22, 2024 | Robert | 19335 | snod307@hotmail.com | My precious beloved mom walked into Penn Medicine Chester County Hospital, West Chester PA, very strong, in good health, with just a UTI, nothing at all anywhere near anything like life-threatening, before being killed by gross extreme severe neglect, malpractice, abuse, dying from things having nothing to do with anything she walked in there with, solely from things done to her by the surgeon/hospital.
| After Initially walkinginto the hospital for UTI, in otherwise very strong healthy condition, and also getting a vien graft in her inner left thigh when a non life threatening blockage was discovered there, my mom went home feeling well, doing good. After a week when the small incision on her left leg began to hurt the home nurse said it is infected and tried very adamantly to get the surgeon to address it immediately but Dr Hayes absolutely refused to see her even against my also calling and pleading with him to please see my mom, her incision is infected. He said she already has a previously scheduled appointment in one week, and refused to see her before that. My mom did not make it a week before collapsing on the ground from the infection traveling to her bloodstream and throughout her body having to be rushed back by ambulance. At that time the doctor performed a very sloppy botched operation to try to fix it and quickly discharged her against my strong objection to a rehab, who recognized as I had tried to tell the hospital, that she was not well and sent her by ambulance back to the hospital. Disgusted with the surgeon we had my mom transferred to Penn Medicine Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia where a surgeon was very upset to see the horrible improper work done to her by Dr Hayes and rushed her into surgery to try to correct it, although she was already very severely injured by the inexcusable egregious neglect and malpractice of Dr Hayes of Chester County Hospital. To add further complications to my mom struggle to survive the neglect and malpractice of Dr Hayes Chester County, they did not use a proper mattress, do any turning, using wedges, or any type of bedsore prevention at all in Hospital of University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, causing my mom to developed a massive hideous excruciatingly painful stage-4 bedsore, and when I reported this to Philadelphia Adult Protective Services the hospital lied to Inspectors that my mom was not in thier hospital, and even falsified records that her name would not show in the hospital registry to successfully stop investigators from seeeing her. A few days later my most beautiful, wonderful, precious, beloved mom, my world, my everything, and the very light of the lives of her family, extended family, and so many who she meant more than the world to, was dead, and despite a profesional nurses testimony, and a detailed outline from a hospital quality research center explaining the succession of preventable things done to her by the surgeon/hospital that killed my mom, Livanta, HHS, CMS, and every dept, official, and agency entrusted to hold accountable, protect people from unsafe hospitals, doctors, conditions, not only refused to take action, but what my unyielding efforts to have something done clearly exposed, was conversely to thier enlisted purpose, a deeply disturbing system of concerted denial, disguise, and cover-up, only promoting, encouraging, and ensuring even further escalation of vulnerable elderly dying in Pennsylvania hospitals at rates seven to ten times what they were just a few years ago, with no accountability.
| Our most precious vulnerable beloved elderly are being wrongfully killed at alarmingly hyper-escalating rates, and all of our government systems are doing nothing to stop it, and everything they can to deny, disguise, cover-up, and effective promote, encourage , and ensure it will never be fixed, and continue to escalate.
| Starting with justice for my mom, that the surgeon who killed her by what was the text book definition of negligent manslaughter homicide, 1) having had a duty of care, 2)having breached that duty of care, 3) that breach of duty of care causing very severe injury, 4) the extent of that injury being death, goes to jail for a very long time and never hurts of kills someone again. And total reform of our corrupt hospital oversight, regulation system that is killing our most precious beloved elderly at astronomically alarming rates.
| Yes | Yes | Yes | PLEASE CONTACT ME! There is much more I would like you to know about the extensive work I have done, and what I have discovered. I have been treated very badly by represenatives I have contacted, I have some very shocking things to share with you that are not in here, and I'm continuing ongoing relentless efforts to try to initiate change, at least to spread awareness. Thank you Sincerely. Robert Snodgrass 484-252-9596
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| November 15, 2022 | | | kcarbyrnes@gmail.com | I'm 71, a retired NYCDOE English teacher. I'm divorced, the grandparent of six children ages 6 to 14. I've lived in my rent-stabilized 90 y/o building in Northern Manhattan for over twenty years. I'm very friendly with my neighbors, many of whom are also long-term tenants.
I'm active in my church, Fort Washington Collegiate Church, a welcoming and diverse congregation. I'm an usher; I volunteer for the church's food pantry, as well as on other projects.
Heretofore, I'd never reported a neighbor to management or to an outside agency. In September of 2021, a new tenant moved in above me, a professional woman working from home. Immediately, there was noise above me unlike the noises (of daily living) I'd become accustomed to for over two decades.
I've been in treatment of PTSD for decades (childhood and marital abuse). I've reported my neighbor's harassment to my building super, to the building's management company, to my adult children, to my primary caregiver, to my therapist, and finally, to my NYPD precinct (34th).
| I never expected, nor have experienced this kind of harassment. I don't own a TV. I have rugs on all my floors. I sometimes play classical music on my radio at a very low volume.
I've learned how hard it is to be taken seriously regarding psychological abuse and harassment. Elder abuse is complex and varied. The most vulnerable among us suffer the most. Nonetheless, having experienced development and and marital abuse, I'm determined to end this abuse. I'm about ready to hire a lawyer and to bring charges against this person.
| If it's easy to psychologically and physically harass (with loud, aggressive, unpredictable noise) an active independent senior, there is so much going on with more vulnerable. Only a very small percentage of elder abuse is reported. Most of it is perpetrated by family and caregivers.
Nonetheless, there are perpetrators of elder abuse who are strangers. That would be the case with me. I don't know anything about my neighbor. She works from home and has a new boyfriend. The boyfriend has assisted in/enabled her abuse. They've cooperated in stomping, and in dropping hard objects on their floor.
All of feels even more abusive because there is never a warning, the abuse is random, and seems designed to cause the greatest physical, emotional, and psychological damage.
| Since this is continuing, despite reports and narratives, I need to take steps beyond police reports. I need greater protection and more serious consequences for person's psychological and emotional abuse.
| Yes | Yes | Yes | As it's not resolved, I believe my story is about continuing the legal process, wherever that leads, to stop this abuse and harassment.
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| November 22, 2024 | Juana Hawk | 77489 | Juanahawk@yahoo.com | I am an elderly woman recovering from a total knee replacement who lives alone. I am a victim of harrassment, bullying and wrongful arrest by my next-door neighbors. This has gone on for the past eight years. I have reached out to my public officials, HOA, senators, city councilwoman, legal aid agencies in my area and nothing changes. I have been shot in my driveway, almost ran over by a car and subjected to other terrorists acts by the neighbor's. I reported these acts which are on video to the police department and they never arrest the neighbors.
| I need to tell my story in a public forum.
| That the police refused to prosecute my neighbors.
| Relief to grow old in my home.
| Yes | Yes | Yes | Please call me
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| May 14, 2024 | Jacklyn | 72764 | info@caregiverescaretakers.com | My dad fell & broke his hip. We were referred to a home care agency. Initially, there was a wonderful caring person that cared for my dad. A few months later he fell & broke his other hip, meaning 24/7 care. The agency would have problems finding someone to care for dad. (little pay, he's a smoker & had a dog, in the country) Finally, "claire" arrived. - 1) She Arrived 2) Arrived On Time 3) Engaging & had a great smile. My dad was wealthy. Over a 7 year period, paying the agency $215,000/per year. Claire disclosed to me in the 3rd year of her employment that she had been in jail for meth years earlier (hence, nice teeth = they weren't Real!?) Dad gave her lots of money, paid off her seller financed mortgage of $27,000, paid for her grandkids to go to summer camp, paid for her CartonS of Cigarettes, and More. Lastly, she convinced dad I was going to take his money & put him in a nursing home. (never crossed my mind nor my lips) She dialed his attorney's number and had me removed as his health POA - when I live within eyeshot of his house! He fell a month later, he called me, I was there within minutes. We waited 2 hours for my brother to arrive. He was upset and apologizing that he caused problems. (he would never apologize or be upset previously) (Abuse from Caregiver) I asked dad why removed my POA, he replied I was after his money. I said I don't need your money, he said I know that. Can't argue with someone who has some dementia and is pain. He Never, Ever called me again. I would see him on Sundays, bring him the paper and he would have nothing to say. He was severely chastised for calling me.
| Home Care Agencies need Regulations!!! They hire "bottom of the barrel" because they pay "bottom of the barrel". All caregivers need to be FBI Rapback background checked - ongoing, real time national background check and fingerprinted. I sell real estate. I have been background checked and fingerprinted in Texas and Arkansas. People who enter vulnerable loved ones home are Not?! Raising the Bar on Caregivers will Raise the Bar on the Quality of Care.
| It's all a Business, in your most vulnerable state of mind, trying to find help for your loved one when you're maintaining a job and family. There are ones that care, but the Roses are Among the Thorns. Scams, frauds, ill-intent people under the guise of caregivers.
| Regulatory oversight of Home Care Agencies, nursing homes and Independent Living facilities. Susie Singer Carter is doing a movie "No Country for Old People" her mom had a stage 4 bedsore in a 5 star nursing home in LA, CA. Shannon Dion's mom was #12 of 22 that were smothered by pillows/murdered by Billy C. in North Texas at two different Independent Living Facilities over a 2 1/2 year time span. Pillowcase Murders is now streaming on Paramount. Many vulnerable loved ones are being taken advantage by home care givers because they feel entitled because they are only paid $10-15/hour and steal out of the homes of the ones they are "caring" for. Caregivers do Not fall under the School of Nursing. CNA's don't even get paid enough! The upper echelon executives skim the money with salaries while the people SUFFER with under paid, over worked staff!
| Yes | Yes | Yes | I hear there is a walk on June 15 in Ft. Worth. What can be done to expand Elder Justice Coalition? Are you the "mother-lode" that will actually care about all the entities of injustice to our vulnerable loved ones? They made America, they made us. Now they are just "throw-a-ways".
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| November 16, 2022 | Julia | 32034 | juleshard23@gmail.com | In 2013 my elderly father, living in his house was experiencing progressive worsening symptoms of Dementia. My younger son was living with him at the time and trying to help as best he could. Son alerted me that my father was on a decline, leaving stove on, doors unlocked, etc. There were neighbors/former co-workers, a girlfriend going out to eat, bank, etc. with him. My son questioned the relationship with these folks and warned me about this. I contacted his doctors' and they both wrote notes to me stating my father may need assistance, as his health was declining and my presence would be helpful if I could be stationed nearer to him. The military was kind enough to issue me orders, shortening my tour, and allowing me to transfer to a unit very close to his home.
| After several months in my father's home, cleaning, cooking, doing everything I could to help him while focusing on my full time military career, the situation became stressful. My father insisted he needed no one's help, and that he was fine. He also made the same statements after we visited his primary care doctor, and his attorney. He suddenly became resentful, hostile, and told me and spouse to move out, ASAP. I had some medical issues at the time, and had no place to go with my household goods in storage. My spouse and I ended up in an Extended Stay, in a nearby town. Then, a couple of months later my son was locked out of the house and had access a window upstairs to gather his belongings and leave as well.
| As we left his house on less than favorable terms, and I told my father I would only return if there was some emergency and would soon retire to another state. These friends, neighbors, former Federal Co-workers and his girlfriend kept coming to my father's home. They were all given keys to everything and my father seemed to trust all these people, and was always showing them into the house and showing them around. He was missing my mother, who died in 2010 and liked to show off her fine silver, china, and things she had inherited from back 3 generations in her family. She still had jewelry, antique mahogany furniture, and everything she had kept from her families treasured items. There was inherited money in the bank, and my father had a cache of weapons in the house and garage for safety reasons.
I sent a few cards, tried to call him over the years, and no answer. In early 2000, there was a call from a longtime friend of the family (a nurse) who said she had received disturbing late night calls from my father recently. She wanted to know if I was aware of his situation, and I did not being that I had not heard from him since we left. The family friend stated that when COVID hit, she found him alone, dirty, and that almost everything in his house, packed garage was gone! I wanted to talk to him and see him, but knew this was not the right time to travel as the virus was keeping everyone at home. After 4 months, I got another call from an older son who told me the rest of his garage was being emptied of all of his machinery, tools, tanks, massive saws, milling machine, drill presses, years of mechanical and technical books he saved. Weapons were also taken, and values stashed in the garage.
| Once I was able to travel to Virginia in early May of 2020, I was able to talk to my father, who told me, "You stole money from my banking/savings account". I asked him for details, he wasn't sure, except to say that the bank was presented with a note and other documents by someone who said they were me and my husband, and my mother's only next of kin, and withdrew all the money in the account. After hearing this I called the bank fraud line and reported my concerns, then visited the bank branch where this happened, and tried to report identity theft, and Elderly Financial Fraud. I also reported everything to local police, state police, Dept of State for my mother's missing passport, Social Services, and began making a list of all that was gone from his home as best as I could remember. Not one agency, seemed interested in helping me because I wasn't the victim! I was only his daughter, so this was hearsay, and not really considered a valid claim. After visiting his attorney's office, I found out that he knew what had happened, but also did not seem to care about the Elder Fraud and Abuse, not reporting any of this to the authorities! At one point in a follow up phone call to the attorney, he stated he was "working on it". I never received followup, nor any help from anyone in the system. This seems as if, at least in the State of Virginia, that if the victim doesn't report these crimes, then it never happened. Please understand that I do not wish revenge for the perpetrators, only justice be served on these folks who committed horrible acts of crime towards my vulnerable, elderly father. The things taken, nearly everything were family heirlooms, precious things that were to be passed down to our small, existing family, me and my sons!
| Yes | Yes | Yes | If persons like these so called, friends, neighbors, a girlfriend, even Federally retired co-workers, are not stopped, they will continue to target the elderly and I believe they will continue to profit and not be held accountable until they meet their judgement day when they die. Social Services was not even aware of an online course that can be taken in the event of elderly crimes, I took the training, then asked the agency if they had taken the Online Reporting Criteria course for Elderly Fraud & Abuse, and the Supervisor at this Social Services said no!
Laws must be strengthened to protect, report, and hold anyone accountable of known Elder Fraud, by family, especially next of kin!
Reporting: If everyone is held accountable, Attorneys (especially Elder Attorneys), Health Care workers, Bystanders who suspect a crime, business vendors, banks and their officials, we might get this type of criminal activity under control one day!
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| October 22, 2022 | Tina | 16601 | tl.schultz@icloud.com | My elderly mother moved in with my older sister in 2016. My older sister did not live in the area. She lived out of town for years. My mother and I were always very close. When my father died in 2000, my family and I took care of my mom's needs with some help from my brothers, who lived in the area. I took my mom to all of her appointments, we had dinner at my house at least once a week if not more, went to grandchildren's events and family members were able to freely visit her at her home. For 16 years, I was her major support. When my sister moved back to the area, she asked my mother to move in with she and her wife. My mother accepted. At first things were ok. There did not seem to be a problem visiting my mom and I was able to still take my mom for some appointments, but not as many as my sister because she was retired and I worked full-time. As time progressed, it appeared that my sister's wife had bipolar disorder. I empathize with anyone dealing with mental health issues; however, this should not affect relationships with my mom. It started to become more difficult to see my mother. In 2010, my eldest brother died and he had been in charge of my mom's finances which he had no problem sharing information with this siblings. My mom was still aware of her own finances so things were pretty much handled by her. When my sister returned in 2016, a year later she took my mom to sign papers making her the POA and she took over her finances. My sister would not share anything about my mom's finances. My sister and her wife began causing issues with the family. After my brother died, my sister took my mom to the attorney and had my brother's kids removed from the will. (No one was told of this before this action was taken because the rest of the family would have differed. My sister did it because she had a falling out with our nephew, my deceased brother's son. She and her wife even recorded a song on my nephew's wife's phone, singing how happy they were that they were out of the family.) This caused a lot of pain for the family and the family began to divide. My sister and her wife would not allow my nephew in their home. Then it began to include my nieces and sister-in-law. Then my sister would allow them to visit my mom sporadically. Then my sister's wife began saying that she did not want me in her home. That I had to make appointments to see my mom when in the beginning when my mom was moving in, I was told that I would be able to see my mom any time. My mom was a negative woman so I know that they were feeling stress as caretakers. Things began to get worse. If I had a suggestion or idea, or was the voice for my mom because my mom was scared of my sister, I was denied access to see my mom. It was like I was grounded for awhile. I was told that I don't want to see your face around here for two weeks. Things like that began happening. We tried to sit down to talk, but my sister always controlled every conversation. My mom was very aware of what was going on and at one point spoke up for me. In August of 2020, my mother asked me to ask my sister if my brother, my husband and I could attend a meeting at the house to discuss her money...a financial advisor was coming to their home. I did as my mom asked and my sister blew her top. She denied any of us to come to the house. She and her wife were also having marriage difficulties at the same time which my cousins were told about because my sister and her wife would go to them to talk. My sister's wife had given her until September 1st to have my mother out or she was going to leave her. My mother was kicked out of their home and given 2 days to move out. She was brought to our home. My brother picked her up. Blair Senior Services was called and they were told that my brother and I removed my mother from their home against her will. This was not true. My sister had a mover drop off all of our mother's things to our home. My sister said she was removing herself from being POA and Executrix of mom's will. So my brother and I took these things over. We discussed options with my mom. Our home was not set up for a 90-year old woman with a walker so we would have to renovate if the decision was to stay at our home. The three options given were:
1. Go to a home because with all the stress in the family, this may be the best option for all family members to visit. The downside was that COVID was raging and we were not sure if this would be the best option.
2. Stay with us in a small bedroom, but realize you will be sharing a bathroom with 5 people.
3. My husband suggested giving up our garage and his home office to create a mother-in-law suite, but we would need financial support from her to make this happen. We would pay for half.
My mom chose option 3. We had meetings with an attorney and discussed this as well as fair market value.
We got a contractor, but that did not work out due to COVID and his schedule, so we actually had to do the renovations ourselves. This then took longer.
In the meantime, my sister did not contact my mom for over 4 months. My mom began ruminating about being kicked out. She would play the scene over and over in her mind. After 4 months of doing this, her memory was affected. In fact, she even forgot who I was and what my name was. This would happen in spurts. I contacted her doctor and the doctor suggested that she experienced a traumatic event and she seemed to be experiencing a post traumatic stress event. She tried several different medications which did not work for her. Zoloft made her anxious and Remeron made her even more forgetful. My mom was taken for cognitive testing. I kept my siblings abreast of everything that was happening. The testing results were that my mother had moderate to severe Alzheimer's. My mother was very upset that I took her for cognitive testing and at this point my sister began calling my mom. My sister had nothing nice to say about her siblings to my mom. My brother took over her finances and I took over the medical. We shared the responsibility. When Blair Senior Services was called on us again, the agency found nothing wrong, but told us that we should put mom' money into a trust. We had been checking into this so we did this. My sister, over the phone, convinced mom that Tim and I were cheating her out of money and that she shouldn't be living here. She told my mom that I was trying to have her deemed incapacitated when I was only trying to help her with her memory issues. 10 months later, my mom's attitude was very negative toward us. This was the time; however, when the cognitive testing was done. I got my mom on medicine for anxiety that helped her and medicine for Alzheimer's. She had just been prescribed it when my sister convinced her that I was stealing money from her. I would only use my mom's debit card because we were told this was an easy way to keep track of her expenditures for the 5-year look back. My mom was convinced that I stole from her and lied to her. She called my sister to come get her. My sister said that she was only taking mom for a few days and then she would bring her back. My mom never came back and this has been over two years that things have been made difficult for immediate family and extended family to see my mom.
My sister has had my mom change the POA and Will during that same week. It took less than 3 days for this to occur and it was done in secret. This alerted TD Ameritrade where my brother and husband had placed the money. Since my husband is an advisor, and my brother's oldest son had died, they discussed with mom managing the money together. My brother would share what he wanted and my husband would make the trades. My mom thought this was a good idea. Anyway, when my sister had everything changed in secret, TD Ameritrade put a freeze on the money. My sister blamed my husband for doing this and this began the poisoning of my mother against us. My mother convinced my mom that Trusts were bad and that none of her other family members had her best interests at heart.
Since then, anyone who has tried to speak to my sister about her unreasonableness had been cut off from my mom. She has not cut my brother and I out yet, but she had made it very uncomfortable and unsafe for us to visit my mom.
Undue influence is rampant. My sister has verbally told my brother and I that if we are on their property we will be arrested. She has issued No Trespassing to my husband and two cousins. She has issued Cease and Desist letters to my cousins and has blocked many family from being able to contact my mom. She has control of the phone and some family members are not even allowed to send mail. She has done this all by using my mom and taking her to an attorney to have these drawn up. My mom said that my sister scares her, but she just says what she is told to say so that there aren't any problems. My mom's memory is much better on her medication and her anxiety medication has totally changed her.
My family knows that we are not welcome there. My sister tells a narrative that paints a terrible picture of all other family members when this couldn't be further from the truth.
| I would like to share that Blair Senior Services is not equipped to handle undue influence. They don't have the training or the staff to make this happen so all this isolation is allowed to happen. In fact, Blair Senior Services has been rude to us at times when we are just seeking support. We have just wanted to call to talk to someone, not necessarily make a report, but they just keep pressing for a report. Make a report or get off the phone. I have been disheartened by their lack of empathy.
Also, Blair Senior Services directed us to get an attorney because this was out of their scope. We did so and then we were treated poorly. I do not understand why my sister was not given the same message. Blair Senior Services than demanded the financial records that we had already turned into my mom's attorney. My sister wants the control of my mom's money and she will most likely not follow my mom's wishes. She was trying to get information that was already turned in to attorneys and then Blair Senior Services treated my family poorly for following their advice. It just doesn't make sense.
Also, the court system is not helpful either because if the elderly person cannot be declared incapacitated, then you cannot go for guardianship. This also makes no sense any way. When a person is in their golden years, why would anyone want to put them through this drama? They would have to testify and be tested cognitively by doctors on both sides and then the case could last a year and a half to two years. Who wants to put an elderly person through this? And...why does a person have to be incapacitated? A person's mind can be unduly influenced and still be competent...I feel this needs to change.
Doctors are also not held accountable for taking an active role in helping the elder...it is as if they turn a blind eye.
| I wish that people understood the damage that psychological abuse can do.
I wish that attorneys, doctors and social workers were held to a higher standard when recognizing signs of undue influence. (California has the CUIST, which at least helps these key players understand and be held accountable for removing older adults from these situations.)
I wish that attorneys would not take cases that they shouldn't. My sister got my mom a different attorney and this attorney should have never taken the case. If he had training in undue influence and if attorneys were held to a higher standard concerning this, then it wouldn't make it easy for controlling family members to take actions such as these.
I wish that family members who have mental illness would be held accountable for actions taken.
I wish that Aging Agencies had the power to mandate family counseling/mediation and give families the tools for conflict resolution.
I wish that one controlling person in a family, that has destroyed an entire family unit, would be held accountable.
I wish that past patterns of suing and causing problems at work and in relationships would be considered.
I wish that the red flags of undue influence were a part of training for social workers and that they would be held to a higher standard where this is concerned.
I wish that there was some mediation in place that is out of the hands of the POA, especially when the POA is destructive.
I wish that the court system had other recourses besides guardianship. Many families cannot even afford the minimum $20,000 that this could cost.
I wish there was a place for dysfunctional families in the system. The family member who has never learned how to play fairly in the sandbox, ends up on top because it is easy to manipulate the Aging Agencies and the Court System in their favor. For example, if my mother lives with my sister, it becomes easy to deny access to people because my mom doesn't own the property.
That Aging Agencies take accountability for their recommendations. Why hasn't Blair Senior Services told my sister that they recommended a Trust...Is this because they could be sued? Are Aging Agencies allowed to give advice like this?
| My hopes for the future...
That legislation is passed that helps key players detect undue influence.
That perpetrators are held accountable for the break up of families and having family members have to grieve for an elderly parent who is still alive. Ambiguous grief is a terrible experience.
That mental illness is considered when a person has a controlling personality and is unreasonable. And that this family member gets the help that he or she needs. All family members deserve to have an authentic relationship with parents.
That POAs are changed to have checks and balances. One person should not be able to control everything. My brother and I, according to my sister, are not worthy to know about my mom's health.
Because of these actions, my mother has lost access to other grandchildren and extended family...well family that my sister does not want her to see anyway.
This is something that can be prevented with the proper training, communication, and interviewing of all family members, not just one.
I really hope that things change for the future. My mom is 93 and she will most likely die before anything can be done, but if my voice can help to promote change, I hope that even one voice can matter.
| No | Yes | Yes | I would like to add that my sister has a habit of suing people. I have contacted state representatives and state senators about this topic. I have heard from Senator Bob Casey and his office suggested that I write an OpEd for the newspaper. I have a rough draft, but do not want to get sued. My husband and I got an attorney to even be able to see my mom. We are not rich, so I do have a concern about being sued. If I could be guaranteed or protected in some way from this, I would be willing to use my name and tell my story further. Undue influence is an insidious form of mental abuse that needs to stop. I have shed a lot of tears missing my mom. Two years later I am changing. I have built up a wall to protect myself. My sister has strong characteristics of narcissistic personality disorder. I cannot diagnose her, but I can tell you that the text messages, emails and phone calls that I receive have been nothing but derogatory and demeaning. It is not safe to be around her. She would not hesitate to make up some type of story that I harmed my mom and this is not out of her realm. She has been known to fudge data on reports about her own teaching/administerial evaluations. She is savvy and her goal is to win at all costs without any empathy for the people who are trying to rationalize with her. It has been tough growing up with her. She holds jealousy and animosity in her heart for her family. I feel that she is a dangerous person in this way, but if you can help me with the legalities of sharing my name, which I have an attorney looking at my editorial to try to ensure that I cannot be sued, I would be more reassured.
I am actually requesting a call back. I feel that there is so much information and that I am rambling because there is finally someone asking us to share. Thank you for this!
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| May 19, 2024 | Kim | 32164 | kdfaulcon@comcast.net | My 73 year old uncle became incapacitated when he went into a diabetic coma and was found unconscious in his home on 10/20/23 by his neighbor . He is a lifetime bachelor with no children. Unfortunately, he did not have a Will and his 79 year old casual girlfriend decided to take advantage of his vulnerability and had a fraudulent POA drawn up even though my uncle repeatedly indicated to his family that he never gave his girlfriend a key to his home after 13 years because he did not want her in his business and he only wanted to see her 3 times a week.
| Despite the fact that 5 medical professionals testified in court that my uncle was incapacitated at the time the fraudulent POA was presented and he could not have understood and executed any legal document , the judge opted to.side with the one medical professional that indicated that my uncle was capacitied for the time period that the fraudulent POA was presented however he is deemed totally incapacitated . Our understanding is that regardless of who testifies , this judge always puts more weight on the testimony of this particular court appointed doctor which raises the question of can anyone really get a fair hearing in this particular court ?
| My wish is that people are very careful regarding who they surround themselves with . The key is to make sure you have your paperwork in order so that there are no questions regarding what your wishes are should you find yourself in a situation where you are incapacitated . The amount of people waiting to prey on you in your most vulnerable state is incredible .
| My hopes for the future would be to gain permanent Guardianship for my uncle so that we his family can care for him and ensure he is receiving the care to requires .
| Yes | Yes | Yes | Our family cannot understand how a person can become incapacitated and then some non family member is allowed to present fraudulent documents and be allowed to take control of another person without consequence . The judge in this case appears to be biased towards any testimony given by a certain court appointed doctor despite the facts not adding up based upon the evidence presented . How a person can be declared completely incapacitated by the judge but supposedly capacitated enough to execute a legal document makes us question how thus judge is allowed to remain on this case that we are waiting for a determination of permanent guardianship.
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| April 6, 2024 | Maria | 23451 | marialer57@gmail.com | This is the story of my mother being in Lake Taylor transitional care Hospital in Norfolk Virginia. Her name is Sofia Dimovich. She first was admitted to Lake Taylor transitional care hospital for rehabilitation. But due to the fact that she has stage four breast cancer congestive heart failure and stage 5/6 dementia.It was determined that she needs skilled nursing home care 24 seven.
My mother first was in the dogwood unit at Lake Taylor. This was the start of her demise. She had developed numerous bedsores because she was left in the bed for days. Their reasoning was that she did not want to get out of bed. This person has dementia. There is a special way of talking to an individual with dementia. The situation even got worse because she became dehydrated and had to go to the ER.
She had additional visits to the ER because of her decrease in health which was contributed by the lack of care (lack of basic care)and neglect from the staff at Lake Taylor nursing home. Her health had deteriorated oh rapidly that she is now on palliative care. But she is not being taken care of with palliative care. I have witnessed many occasions where her food was left on the tray with out helping her eat. She is supposed to be checked every 2 to 3 hours.II have to ask if they’re going to give her a shower. I have continuously asked to have her dressed daily and placed in a chair to avoid bedsores from getting worse. but with the worst is is that they don’t know what she ate when someone supposed to be sitting with her.
On One occasion I was told that if they” got her up that they could not put her back into bed until after the second shift “,which I knew it was a lie. There has been many times when she has been soiled and has rang her bell for a long period of time without being taken care of. She has even fallen out of her bed. The act of care during her meal time is cruelty. She is supposed to be watched or helped during meal time. She is supposed to have a Magic dessert that has high protein during two of her meals. But this is not always the case.
After returning from another stay in the ICU unit at the hospital her weight was 130 on the day of her arrival in January by March she had lost another 15 pounds she is currently down to 113. This is pure neglect. They don’t want to take the time to help her during feeding time. She is a very picky eater but if you just give her a magic dessert and Ensure that would at least help maintain her weight. They continuously make excuses that she does not wanna get out of bed. Of course she doesn’t because of fear.Plus she has dementia.
| The reason why I am sharing the story is because I have met other family members at Lake Taylor transitional Hospital that have had the same experience with the staff. I think that it would help if the facility provided appropriate staff training to implement proper care of patients with dementia or Alzheimer’s. This shouldn’t just be a reason to take money from elderly people without caring for them. I want people to remember that when you have a family member with dementia that it’s your responsibility to be their advocate. People should not be afraid to speak out in order to improve living conditions for the elderly in any type of facility.
| That it does happen. And that someday we all are going to get old and that we need family ,friends ,even strangers to be able to address abuse ,neglect or fraud. Please Remember that a facility does have an obligation to treat their patients with consideration ,respect and dignity no matter what their acute illnesses may be. It does matter.
| My hopes for the future is that there is more training for staff members. Higher pay for caretakers in nursing homes or assistant living. And elimination of shortage of staffing problems. Developing respect and appropriate care for aging population.
| Yes | Yes | Yes | Learning to be kind and taking the time to speak out.
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| October 21, 2022 | Virginia | 24523 | mexicoginny@yahoo.com | My husband (now deceased) and I bought a house at a local retirement community that advertised care and various conditions that never existed.
Their fraudulent advertising continues to this day and to add insult to injury they are using pictures of us on line to promote continued sales of said properties! We had no knowledge they were being used! We moved but they continue using our ‘likeness’ to sell properties to other unsuspecting seniors- a violation of federal law - and they are getting away with it! I reported them to BBB but their false advertising continues! Thanks for helping seniors who are being victimized! I will gladly testify to the above facts.
| | | My hope is to see the government help seniors who are being victimized.
| Yes | Yes | Yes | I am more than happy to testify to the above facts. I have documents that will show what happened and is continuing to happen. Please contact me 🙏
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| May 31, 2023 | Dawn | 24426 | | My parents live together in their marital home. My father has Parkinson's Disease. My mother has a high school education, but it appears that she might have had a learning disability when it comes to language and math skills.
| My parents have been the victims of financial exploitation twice. The first time my father clicked on something on the computer which allowed the scammers to take over his computer. He provided them with gift cards to "fix the problem with the computer".
The second time my mother was contacted by phone. The scammers told her that their IP address had been used to look at porn in other countries and that the FBI was investigating them. They told my parents not to tell anyone because if they did whoever they told might be in danger. They told my parents their financial information had been compromised and they would be sending them a check ledger. My mother bought over $12,000 in gift cards and provided those numbers to the scammers.
My mother has gone back to work at 73 as a school bus driver due to the financial damage this scam did to her and my father. My father is a retired federal employee. He is 81 years old. He took early retirement at the age of 55. This second round of financial exploitation has caused them significant financial harm.
| Elder abuse, neglect and fraud are horrible actions. The perpetrators prey on vulnerable adults. All forms of elder abuse are horrific. Exploitation or fraud might only appear to affect a person financially, but it does affect them emotionally. There are feelings of embarrassment, shame, self doubt, and other negative thoughts.
| My hope is that the Federal Government recognizes the importance of funding adult protective services programs across the US and its territories. This is to respond to adult abuse, neglect and exploitation, as well as educate the public about these horrific acts. Adults deserve to live a life of dignity and respect.
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