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| August 22, 2023 | Anonymous good guardian | 48346 | ssserselc3@gmail.com | My elderly mother had already made her Will out as she had a son and daughter disabled one by auto accident another by COPD and she wanted to make sure the two other adult children (I was one) that were guardians of the two disabled would make sure if anything happened to her would have the means to take care of the disabled ones. I was also POA/Patient Advocate for mother if she ever became incapacitated and other sibling POA for finances for our mother. To make a very long stiry shorter a greedy sister decided to become mothers chore person through DHS and started on a plan to put our mother under guardianship when she did not need one and had 2 sons living with her attending to some things. This sister did not get along with one of the brothers and started making false accusations of almost everybody whom she knew helped mom for many years as she was hardly ever around. We started confronting her about taking money, jewelry etc. snd she petitioned probate with slandering lies about the supportive siblings and ones mother put in charge in her end of life plans. She kidnapped mother out of her home took her to her home and isolated her away from even the disabled adult children. She recorded phone calls and monitored everything on a baby monitor in mothers room. When the court date came she had a good attorney with mothers estate and mother had court appointed attorney she did not bring mother to court as she started her on a antidepressant and started her plan to make her seem dementia wad going on. Mother had reported her to Social Security that she changed her address and bank with them without permission and mother was looking forward to tell het story to the judge. Well thst is when we realized the judge was corrupt snd along with sisters attorney in judges chamber already planned the outcome. The judge would not allow myself and other sister in charge of mothers plans. No due process was given we were not allowed to tell her mother had plans in place and did not need a guardian &/or Conservator. Whatever lies or not we do not know only that we were not able to have out day in court to speak the truth or show evidence bank records, end of life plans or anything and were treated like criminals slandered by the actually criminal petitioning the court in the first place. The worst part is our beautiful, trusting, vulnerable elderly mother was put under the racket of hospice and if you could see the picture I took of her when on rare occasion was able to pick her up to through a party for after bring with me for 2 weeks when the criminal went on vacation for het birthday the nurse could not believe she was the same person as I was not drugging her. My mother told the nurse the criminal was stealing her money, her purse and she did not even have a dollar or an ID. The nurse spoke to the criminal a year later mother was dead 58 pounds she had no heart or lung problems. Died from natural causes my ass she died from hospice cocktail caused by a greedy daughter. What I would like to see changed is no guardian petition should ever be accepted by any probate court without mediation first as that gives time fir the truth/evidence snd would have given my mother a voice or myself as Patient advocate/POA speak for her, also a judge should have to ask for these documents and put in writing why she will not honor this and lawyers should have to tell the people that a judge can void them at their own biases and there is nothing you can do about it. Put your plans on video that you do not want a professional guardian if you do not and who you want and where to find your documents or register them.
| Pass Bills already written to this affect and make the judges follow the law.
| It is mostly all about the money. They will still everything you worked for all your life and leave even your disabled adult children homeless.
| For all these corrupt judges, lawyers, doctors, police, nurses, nursing home staff, social workers, professional or sibling guardians etc. get exposed and justice served. You could never believe or imagine the devastation it causes until it happens to you or a loved one. There is nobody immune even all the ones listed above can and do end up in this nightmare.
| No | Yes | Yes | Save the vulnerable elderly and disabled from this abuse, because thes elder abuse tasks forces can not even pass the Bills.
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| May 28, 2023 | Jean | 20854 | 2026972941 | Yes
| Condition , situation and outcome
| To preventing the other family from same family crisis situation.
| Have an organization stepping into the intervention process to help.
| No | Yes | Yes | Yes
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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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| 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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| November 11, 2023 | | | | I am a senior citizen who lives in Rhode Island is a victim of power-based abuse. My daughter attacked me a fee weeks ago and was arrested. I am trying to flee but I haven't any income. I am living in an apartment without heat and sleeping on the floor. The abusers are her father's celebrant family. I need help.
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| November 7, 2024 | Hunter | 88061 | caridaddecobre@yahoo.com | Three days before Christmas of 2023, I signed for a certified legal letter with a threat to evict me unless I complied with certain conditions dictated by my son-in-law and daughter. They own this run-down casita that I have called home since 2021. I immediately replied to the threat by citing legal precedent and sending their attorney a copy of the checks that I contributed toward the purchase of this property. I assured their lawyer that I would contest any formal eviction myself in a court of law. Soon this esquire informed me that he no longer represented my family. At the time, I was 70 years old with no husband or income other than social security.
It should be noted that my only child was born out of conflict, not love. I fornicated with a cruel and creative man because I was homeless; I could not abort. The father of my child was pathological with money–a trait he passed on to his only child and so much more insidious than the beautiful blue eyes she inherited from him. My daughter insisted that if I did not vacate this casita voluntarily, that no landlord would ever rent to me again. Her attempt to play into my biggest fear–homelessness–was also a form of abuse perpetrated with malicious intent in my humble opinion.
| During the pandemic, I contributed a large portion of my savings toward the purchase of this historic property in Silver City. An agreement was made in good faith–I would reside in the smallest dwelling place. However, when I finally set foot into that tiny space, I realized it would feel as if I were confined to a prison cell. I opted to spend the final chapter of my life in a three-room casita on this property built in 1877. Initially this was acceptable, but greed surfaced. A source of contention was my survival after my second heart surgery in 2021. My daughter asked me what I believe to have been an abusive question: “What if you live another 20 years?” I assured her that I didn’t have the money or desire to live into extreme old age. Unsatisfied, she persisted: “But what if you do?”
| Despite having no criminal history, it was decided that I can no longer have contact with my only grandchild. I believe this is a form of punishment for not complying with their demands. The structures on this land are high maintenance, in constant need of repair. The resident handyman yelled, cursed and raised his hand at me in a threatening gesture. My family refused to evict or run a criminal background check on him. Eventually this angry man yelled at an 80-year-old Air B and B cleaner working on this property. Appalled and concerned for our safety, I then decided to file a complaint against Handy-Andy with the local police. Was my son-in-law's refusal to evict/background check this verbally abusive worker elder abuse? You decide.
| My hope for the future is to live out the rest of my life without ever being homeless again.
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| April 30, 2023 | Laura | 91306 | laura945@earthlink.net | In September 2020, I moved in with my then 89-year-old mother to help her with the necessities of daily living. On January 2, 2022, my mother fell and broke her hip. Kaiser Permanente's medical negligence crippled her. She has been in and out of hospitals, skilled nursing facilities and a board and care ever since. In February 2023, I extricated her from Kaiser, switching her to Anthem Blue Cross, which went into effect on March 1, 2023. Two days before the switch, Kaiser took her out of the (out-of-network) hospital against medical advice and, over my objections, stuck her in one of the worst skilled nursing facilities in Los Angeles County. The SNF withheld my mother's blood thinners (she's genetically predisposed to clots) without medical justification, causing her to have a stroke. No one noticed she'd had a stroke, making her ineligible for the medication which could have reversed the stroke. They told EMTs my mother had a DNR, knowing she did not. They also committed Medi-Cal fraud.
| Kaiser Permanente, one of the largest health care providers in the U.S., is committing Medicare fraud, tax fraud and health care fraud, involving out-of-network hospitalizations.
On June 27, 2022, my mother was a patient at Sherwood Oaks Post Acute in Thousand Oaks, California. She was sent there by Kaiser Woodland Hills, ostensibly to receive physical therapy after she broke her hip. (Kaiser selected Sherwood Oaks. Because of limited availabilities due to the COVID pandemic, Kaiser sent her to a skilled nursing facility which was out-of-network.)
While she was a patient at Sherwood Oaks, my mother went into septic shock and was taken by ambulance to Los Robles Regional Medical Center in Thousand Oaks. (Los Robles was the closest hospital to Sherwood Oaks, and is out-of-network.) She was diagnosed with bi-lateral kidney stones in her kidneys and ureters, her right kidney was inflamed.
Los Robles saved my mother’s life. She was a patient there for twenty-five (25) days, eventually being discharged to Kaiser Panorama City on July 22, 2022.
The amount claimed by Kaiser for reimbursement from Medicare does not match the amount Kaiser paid Los Robles as settlement of their bill for my mother’s care.
Per Medicare, Kaiser filed a claim for my mother’s stay at Los Robles in the amount of $893,868.25. Medicare approved the claim in full, and reimbursed Kaiser $0.00. Per the Explanations of Benefits (EOBs) prepared by Kaiser, Kaiser paid Los Robles $59,261.79 for my mother’s hospital stay. Kaiser’s Medicare claim for this out-of-network hospital stay was $843,246.46 more than what they actually paid Los Robles to settle the bill, a difference of 1508%.
This was not an isolated incident. On August 25, 2022, my mother was taken by ambulance to Northridge Hospital Medical Center, where she was diagnosed with a urinary tract infection. She was transferred to Kaiser Panorama City on August 27, 2022.
Per Medicare, Kaiser filed a claim for my mother’s stay at Northridge Hospital in the amount of $54,342.00. Medicare approved the claim in full, and reimbursed Kaiser $144.81. Per the EOBs prepared by Kaiser, Kaiser paid Northridge Hospital $9,814.32 for my mother’s hospital stay. Kaiser’s Medicare claim for this out-of-network hospital stay was $44,527.68 more than they actually paid Northridge Hospital to settle the bill, a difference of 554%.
It would be reasonable for Los Robles and Northridge Hospital to be able to take tax write-offs for the difference between the amounts they billed Kaiser (as my mother’s Medicare provider) and the amounts Kaiser actually paid them for my mother’s care. It is not reasonable for Kaiser to file Medicare claims for reimbursement of amounts higher than they actually paid Los Robles and Northridge Hospital.
If Kaiser did what I think they did, Kaiser’s grossly inflated Medicare claims were filed to facilitate filing falsified tax write-offs, write-offs for money they never paid.
I can provide you with copies of Kaiser’s Medicare claims for my mother’s hospital stays at Los Robles Regional Medical Center and Northridge Hospital Medical Center (dba Dignity Community Care), along with Kaiser’s EOBs for July 2022, August 2022, September 2022, October 2022 and December 2022. I can also provide you with copies of my mother’s financial and health care powers-of-attorney, as well as her signed HIPAA Release.
I have already filed complaints with Medicare, the IRS, the Franchise Tax Board and the Department of Justice.
I am currently organizing my evidence regarding Kaiser’s actions to get out of paying for my mother’s care at Sherwood Oaks. When completed, I will be filing complaints against Kaiser and Sherwood Oaks for perjury (to Livanta), falsification of medical records and HIPAA violation with the FBI, the California Attorney General, and the Los Angeles and Ventura County District Attorneys. (Kaiser and Sherwood Oaks sent Livanta medical records indicating my mother received weeks of physical and occupational therapy, before deciding she had plateaued and would not benefit from additional therapy. Kaiser's EOBs prove my mother received only two PT/OT sessions, one as part of her evaluation the day she was admitted.)
| So-called "health care" companies need to be held accountable for their actions. Kaiser routinely discriminates against the elderly, the disabled and the chronically ill. Kaiser has no interest in the health and welfare of their members, only in how much money they can make off of them.
| I want justice for my mother. I want Kaiser and Sherwood Oaks held accountable for their actions. I want the laws changed to protect our most vulnerable citizens.
| Yes | Yes | Yes | I do not wish to remain anonymous. I want everyone to know what Kaiser has done, and am willing to tell anyone who will listen.
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| May 18, 2023 | Sharon Anderson | | spinnashayykayy@gmail.com | My father's Sister,Daughter,and his POA forged signatures stealing all of childrens inheritance, properties, and starved, abused, and put pills in his mouth, Killing him. I went to his home, and was attacked by his So called POA,, wife and brother with a gun, beating me, telling me they were going to kill me like they did my dad, they killed my family!! And will kill me, when they catch me
| | | | Yes | Yes | Yes | They shot and killed my 17 yr old son and covered it up as suicide in Livingston parish Louisiana, with all along with all my possessions being stolen and the sheriff said,that the evidence that I have was probably contaminated. They all got away with murder, crime, human trafficking, stealing peoples properties, bank account, Inheritances
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| May 18, 2023 | Sharon Anderson | | spinnashayykayy@gmail.com | My father's Sister,Daughter,and his POA forged signatures stealing all of childrens inheritance, properties, and starved, abused, and put pills in his mouth, Killing him. I went to his home, and was attacked by his So called POA,, wife and brother with a gun, beating me, telling me they were going to kill me like they did my dad, they killed my family!! And will kill me, when they catch me
| | | | Yes | Yes | Yes | They shot and killed my 17 yr old son and covered it up as suicide in Livingston parish Louisiana, with all along with all my possessions being stolen and the sheriff said,that the evidence that I have was probably contaminated. They all got away with murder, crime, human trafficking, stealing peoples properties, bank account, Inheritances
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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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| 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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| May 26, 2023 | Steve | 92223 | smehl1506@aol.com | Hacked computer. Nearly cost us thousands of dollars.
| Received a pop-up notice allegedly from Apple (Apple does NOT send these) stating that my computer was hacked. The notice told me to call a rep. The rep gave his full name and false Apple ID number. (Real Apple reps don't do that). He suggested my bank account may have also been hacked. He asked me to give the toll-free bank member service number, which I did. (Golden 1 Credit Union). He said he would transfer me to a customer service rep at the bank. The person who answered was NOT a customer service rep. He told me my checking account had been hacked for more than $15,000. He said the only way to stop it was to withdraw $15,000 from my account and await further instructions. Fortunately, by that time, I got suspicious. So I visited my branch and talked to the manager. He agreed that this was a scam. I gave the names of the fraudulent agents and their phone numbers to the FTC.
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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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| January 22, 2024 | Robert | 19335 | 484-252-9596 | I was watching a program the other day about Harvey Wienstien, listening to the women talk about the pain, hurt, humiliatiin they lived with in silence until they got justice. I will never really know thier pain, but i do certainly know what it is like trying to go on living with the unbearable pain of extreme injustice tearing you apart inside, having walked into a hospital with my most beautiful precious beloved mom with nothing anywhere near life-threatening wrong with her at all, only to see her be gruesomely killed by a doctors most blatant gross severe neglect, malpractice that there ever could be. And as if that isn't bad enough, the soul-wrenching betrayal of Livanta/CMS/HHS/AARP twisting a thousand hot irons in your heart, using thier full power and influence to deny, disguise, do anything they can to cover-up for and protect my moms killer from accountability, aa if they have no conscience, no heart at all, and either don't recognize, or just don't care, that even if they have the power and connections to get away with it on paper, nothing in this world, nothing that they do, goes unseen by The One who nothing is hidden from, who knows all truth about everything. It truly baffles and confounds my mind to think how/where they find personel capable to even do these jobs which require a total compromise of all human decency and basic principles that I thought was reserved for the rare psycopath serial killer types, somehow lacking the critical inherent component of civil human beings, a nature that renders us incapable of comitting atrocities against others, be it our soul, conscience, heart, compassion. Scary to think these highly dangerous types may be much more common than i thought, including working, holding powerful positions within the systems we rely on to keep us, and our loved ones safe from being killed by bad doctors/hospitals The staff at Livanta/CMS/HHS would have to be full of them, as no person of quality with any measure of integrity, principles at all, could accept a paycheck for helping to cover for someone who blatantly killed my mom. The pain of losing a loved one is hard enough. When that loved one is killed by another person, it's a lot harder. There are no words to begin to convey how many times over much harder still it is watching the greatest love of your life, my precious beloved mom, being torturously killed, screaming HELP MEEE, AAAAA, HEEELLLP MEEE, in excruciating agony, all because of the gross extreme neglect, malpractice of a doctor who refused to see her against the adamant urgings of me and a profesional home nurse asking, begging that she needs and requires immeadiate attention. I assure you it is an unimaginable heartwrenching soul crushing indescribable hell that is hard to even go on living with, ONLY MULTIPLIED EVEN MORE MANY TIMES OVER BY THE EVIL DEPRAVED PEOPLE AT LIVANTA PROTECTING MY MOMS KILLER RATHER THAN HOLDING THAT DOCTOR ACCOUNTABLE, WHO I WATCHED, AND HAVE A PROFESSIONAL NURSES WRITTEN STATEMENT, AND A NEW RECENTLY RECIEVED DESCRIPTIVE OUTLINE FROM A NATIONALY RENOWNED HOSPITAL SAFETY & RESEARCH ORGANIZATION DETAILING HOW THE HORRIBLE NEGLECT AND MALPRACTICE OF A DOCTOR KILLED MY MOM, AFTER WALKING INTO THAT HOSPITAL WITH ABSOLUTELY NOTHING LIKE ANYTHING ANYWHERE NEAR LIFE-THREATENING WRONG WITH HER AT ALL. ENTRUSTING HER HEALTH INTO THE HANDS OF AN INCOMPETENT DOCTOR, WHO GRUESOMELY KILLED HER, DYING 100% FROM THINGS DONE TO HER. I FIND IT DISTURBING TO THINK THAT YOU WERE EVEN ABLE TO FIND PERSONEL TO ACCEPT PAYCHECKS FOR BEING ACCOMPLICES TO PROVEN, KNOWN, BLATANT, NEGLIGENT MANSLAUGHTER HOMICIDE, EFFECTIVELY ASSURING AND ENCOURAGING EVEN WORSENING HOSPITAL CONDITIONS AND FURTHER HYPER-ESCALATION OF WRONFUL DEATHS ESPECIALLY OF THE PRECIOUS BELOVED VULNERABLE ELDERLY BECAUSE OF WHAT THE HEARTLESS, SOULESS, SICK EVIL DEPRAVED PEOPLE AT LIVANTA, CMS, HHS, AARP FUNCTIONALLY AND EFFECTIVELY DO. Truly and Sincerely, Robert Snodgrass 484-252-9596
| I was watching a program the other day about Harvey Wienstien, listening to the women talk about the pain, hurt, humiliatiin they lived with in silence until they got justice. I will never really know thier pain, but i do certainly know what it is like trying to go on living with the unbearable pain of extreme injustice tearing you apart inside, having walked into a hospital with my most beautiful precious beloved mom with nothing anywhere near life-threatening wrong with her at all, only to see her be gruesomely killed by a doctors most blatant gross severe neglect, malpractice that there ever could be. And as if that isn't bad enough, the soul-wrenching betrayal of Livanta/CMS/HHS/AARP twisting a thousand hot irons in your heart, using thier full power and influence to deny, disguise, do anything they can to cover-up for and protect my moms killer from accountability, aa if they have no conscience, no heart at all, and either don't recognize, or just don't care, that even if they have the power and connections to get away with it on paper, nothing in this world, nothing that they do, goes unseen by The One who nothing is hidden from, who knows all truth about everything. It truly baffles and confounds my mind to think how/where they find personel capable to even do these jobs which require a total compromise of all human decency and basic principles that I thought was reserved for the rare psycopath serial killer types, somehow lacking the critical inherent component of civil human beings, a nature that renders us incapable of comitting atrocities against others, be it our soul, conscience, heart, compassion. Scary to think these highly dangerous types may be much more common than i thought, including working, holding powerful positions within the systems we rely on to keep us, and our loved ones safe from being killed by bad doctors/hospitals The staff at Livanta/CMS/HHS would have to be full of them, as no person of quality with any measure of integrity, principles at all, could accept a paycheck for helping to cover for someone who blatantly killed my mom. The pain of losing a loved one is hard enough. When that loved one is killed by another person, it's a lot harder. There are no words to begin to convey how many times over much harder still it is watching the greatest love of your life, my precious beloved mom, being torturously killed, screaming HELP MEEE, AAAAA, HEEELLLP MEEE, in excruciating agony, all because of the gross extreme neglect, malpractice of a doctor who refused to see her against the adamant urgings of me and a profesional home nurse asking, begging that she needs and requires immeadiate attention. I assure you it is an unimaginable heartwrenching soul crushing indescribable hell that is hard to even go on living with, ONLY MULTIPLIED EVEN MORE MANY TIMES OVER BY THE EVIL DEPRAVED PEOPLE AT LIVANTA PROTECTING MY MOMS KILLER RATHER THAN HOLDING THAT DOCTOR ACCOUNTABLE, WHO I WATCHED, AND HAVE A PROFESSIONAL NURSES WRITTEN STATEMENT, AND A NEW RECENTLY RECIEVED DESCRIPTIVE OUTLINE FROM A NATIONALY RENOWNED HOSPITAL SAFETY & RESEARCH ORGANIZATION DETAILING HOW THE HORRIBLE NEGLECT AND MALPRACTICE OF A DOCTOR KILLED MY MOM, AFTER WALKING INTO THAT HOSPITAL WITH ABSOLUTELY NOTHING LIKE ANYTHING ANYWHERE NEAR LIFE-THREATENING WRONG WITH HER AT ALL. ENTRUSTING HER HEALTH INTO THE HANDS OF AN INCOMPETENT DOCTOR, WHO GRUESOMELY KILLED HER, DYING 100% FROM THINGS DONE TO HER. I FIND IT DISTURBING TO THINK THAT YOU WERE EVEN ABLE TO FIND PERSONEL TO ACCEPT PAYCHECKS FOR BEING ACCOMPLICES TO PROVEN, KNOWN, BLATANT, NEGLIGENT MANSLAUGHTER HOMICIDE, EFFECTIVELY ASSURING AND ENCOURAGING EVEN WORSENING HOSPITAL CONDITIONS AND FURTHER HYPER-ESCALATION OF WRONFUL DEATHS ESPECIALLY OF THE PRECIOUS BELOVED VULNERABLE ELDERLY BECAUSE OF WHAT THE HEARTLESS, SOULESS, SICK EVIL DEPRAVED PEOPLE AT LIVANTA, CMS, HHS, AARP FUNCTIONALLY AND EFFECTIVELY DO. Truly and Sincerely, Robert Snodgrass 484-252-9596
| I was watching a program the other day about Harvey Wienstien, listening to the women talk about the pain, hurt, humiliatiin they lived with in silence until they got justice. I will never really know thier pain, but i do certainly know what it is like trying to go on living with the unbearable pain of extreme injustice tearing you apart inside, having walked into a hospital with my most beautiful precious beloved mom with nothing anywhere near life-threatening wrong with her at all, only to see her be gruesomely killed by a doctors most blatant gross severe neglect, malpractice that there ever could be. And as if that isn't bad enough, the soul-wrenching betrayal of Livanta/CMS/HHS/AARP twisting a thousand hot irons in your heart, using thier full power and influence to deny, disguise, do anything they can to cover-up for and protect my moms killer from accountability, aa if they have no conscience, no heart at all, and either don't recognize, or just don't care, that even if they have the power and connections to get away with it on paper, nothing in this world, nothing that they do, goes unseen by The One who nothing is hidden from, who knows all truth about everything. It truly baffles and confounds my mind to think how/where they find personel capable to even do these jobs which require a total compromise of all human decency and basic principles that I thought was reserved for the rare psycopath serial killer types, somehow lacking the critical inherent component of civil human beings, a nature that renders us incapable of comitting atrocities against others, be it our soul, conscience, heart, compassion. Scary to think these highly dangerous types may be much more common than i thought, including working, holding powerful positions within the systems we rely on to keep us, and our loved ones safe from being killed by bad doctors/hospitals The staff at Livanta/CMS/HHS would have to be full of them, as no person of quality with any measure of integrity, principles at all, could accept a paycheck for helping to cover for someone who blatantly killed my mom. The pain of losing a loved one is hard enough. When that loved one is killed by another person, it's a lot harder. There are no words to begin to convey how many times over much harder still it is watching the greatest love of your life, my precious beloved mom, being torturously killed, screaming HELP MEEE, AAAAA, HEEELLLP MEEE, in excruciating agony, all because of the gross extreme neglect, malpractice of a doctor who refused to see her against the adamant urgings of me and a profesional home nurse asking, begging that she needs and requires immeadiate attention. I assure you it is an unimaginable heartwrenching soul crushing indescribable hell that is hard to even go on living with, ONLY MULTIPLIED EVEN MORE MANY TIMES OVER BY THE EVIL DEPRAVED PEOPLE AT LIVANTA PROTECTING MY MOMS KILLER RATHER THAN HOLDING THAT DOCTOR ACCOUNTABLE, WHO I WATCHED, AND HAVE A PROFESSIONAL NURSES WRITTEN STATEMENT, AND A NEW RECENTLY RECIEVED DESCRIPTIVE OUTLINE FROM A NATIONALY RENOWNED HOSPITAL SAFETY & RESEARCH ORGANIZATION DETAILING HOW THE HORRIBLE NEGLECT AND MALPRACTICE OF A DOCTOR KILLED MY MOM, AFTER WALKING INTO THAT HOSPITAL WITH ABSOLUTELY NOTHING LIKE ANYTHING ANYWHERE NEAR LIFE-THREATENING WRONG WITH HER AT ALL. ENTRUSTING HER HEALTH INTO THE HANDS OF AN INCOMPETENT DOCTOR, WHO GRUESOMELY KILLED HER, DYING 100% FROM THINGS DONE TO HER. I FIND IT DISTURBING TO THINK THAT YOU WERE EVEN ABLE TO FIND PERSONEL TO ACCEPT PAYCHECKS FOR BEING ACCOMPLICES TO PROVEN, KNOWN, BLATANT, NEGLIGENT MANSLAUGHTER HOMICIDE, EFFECTIVELY ASSURING AND ENCOURAGING EVEN WORSENING HOSPITAL CONDITIONS AND FURTHER HYPER-ESCALATION OF WRONFUL DEATHS ESPECIALLY OF THE PRECIOUS BELOVED VULNERABLE ELDERLY BECAUSE OF WHAT THE HEARTLESS, SOULESS, SICK EVIL DEPRAVED PEOPLE AT LIVANTA, CMS, HHS, AARP FUNCTIONALLY AND EFFECTIVELY DO. Truly and Sincerely, Robert Snodgrass 484-252-9596
| I was watching a program the other day about Harvey Wienstien, listening to the women talk about the pain, hurt, humiliatiin they lived with in silence until they got justice. I will never really know thier pain, but i do certainly know what it is like trying to go on living with the unbearable pain of extreme injustice tearing you apart inside, having walked into a hospital with my most beautiful precious beloved mom with nothing anywhere near life-threatening wrong with her at all, only to see her be gruesomely killed by a doctors most blatant gross severe neglect, malpractice that there ever could be. And as if that isn't bad enough, the soul-wrenching betrayal of Livanta/CMS/HHS/AARP twisting a thousand hot irons in your heart, using thier full power and influence to deny, disguise, do anything they can to cover-up for and protect my moms killer from accountability, aa if they have no conscience, no heart at all, and either don't recognize, or just don't care, that even if they have the power and connections to get away with it on paper, nothing in this world, nothing that they do, goes unseen by The One who nothing is hidden from, who knows all truth about everything. It truly baffles and confounds my mind to think how/where they find personel capable to even do these jobs which require a total compromise of all human decency and basic principles that I thought was reserved for the rare psycopath serial killer types, somehow lacking the critical inherent component of civil human beings, a nature that renders us incapable of comitting atrocities against others, be it our soul, conscience, heart, compassion. Scary to think these highly dangerous types may be much more common than i thought, including working, holding powerful positions within the systems we rely on to keep us, and our loved ones safe from being killed by bad doctors/hospitals The staff at Livanta/CMS/HHS would have to be full of them, as no person of quality with any measure of integrity, principles at all, could accept a paycheck for helping to cover for someone who blatantly killed my mom. The pain of losing a loved one is hard enough. When that loved one is killed by another person, it's a lot harder. There are no words to begin to convey how many times over much harder still it is watching the greatest love of your life, my precious beloved mom, being torturously killed, screaming HELP MEEE, AAAAA, HEEELLLP MEEE, in excruciating agony, all because of the gross extreme neglect, malpractice of a doctor who refused to see her against the adamant urgings of me and a profesional home nurse asking, begging that she needs and requires immeadiate attention. I assure you it is an unimaginable heartwrenching soul crushing indescribable hell that is hard to even go on living with, ONLY MULTIPLIED EVEN MORE MANY TIMES OVER BY THE EVIL DEPRAVED PEOPLE AT LIVANTA PROTECTING MY MOMS KILLER RATHER THAN HOLDING THAT DOCTOR ACCOUNTABLE, WHO I WATCHED, AND HAVE A PROFESSIONAL NURSES WRITTEN STATEMENT, AND A NEW RECENTLY RECIEVED DESCRIPTIVE OUTLINE FROM A NATIONALY RENOWNED HOSPITAL SAFETY & RESEARCH ORGANIZATION DETAILING HOW THE HORRIBLE NEGLECT AND MALPRACTICE OF A DOCTOR KILLED MY MOM, AFTER WALKING INTO THAT HOSPITAL WITH ABSOLUTELY NOTHING LIKE ANYTHING ANYWHERE NEAR LIFE-THREATENING WRONG WITH HER AT ALL. ENTRUSTING HER HEALTH INTO THE HANDS OF AN INCOMPETENT DOCTOR, WHO GRUESOMELY KILLED HER, DYING 100% FROM THINGS DONE TO HER. I FIND IT DISTURBING TO THINK THAT YOU WERE EVEN ABLE TO FIND PERSONEL TO ACCEPT PAYCHECKS FOR BEING ACCOMPLICES TO PROVEN, KNOWN, BLATANT, NEGLIGENT MANSLAUGHTER HOMICIDE, EFFECTIVELY ASSURING AND ENCOURAGING EVEN WORSENING HOSPITAL CONDITIONS AND FURTHER HYPER-ESCALATION OF WRONFUL DEATHS ESPECIALLY OF THE PRECIOUS BELOVED VULNERABLE ELDERLY BECAUSE OF WHAT THE HEARTLESS, SOULESS, SICK EVIL DEPRAVED PEOPLE AT LIVANTA, CMS, HHS, AARP FUNCTIONALLY AND EFFECTIVELY DO. Truly and Sincerely, Robert Snodgrass 484-252-9596
| Yes | Yes | Yes | I was watching a program the other day about Harvey Wienstien, listening to the women talk about the pain, hurt, humiliatiin they lived with in silence until they got justice. I will never really know thier pain, but i do certainly know what it is like trying to go on living with the unbearable pain of extreme injustice tearing you apart inside, having walked into a hospital with my most beautiful precious beloved mom with nothing anywhere near life-threatening wrong with her at all, only to see her be gruesomely killed by a doctors most blatant gross severe neglect, malpractice that there ever could be. And as if that isn't bad enough, the soul-wrenching betrayal of Livanta/CMS/HHS/AARP twisting a thousand hot irons in your heart, using thier full power and influence to deny, disguise, do anything they can to cover-up for and protect my moms killer from accountability, aa if they have no conscience, no heart at all, and either don't recognize, or just don't care, that even if they have the power and connections to get away with it on paper, nothing in this world, nothing that they do, goes unseen by The One who nothing is hidden from, who knows all truth about everything. It truly baffles and confounds my mind to think how/where they find personel capable to even do these jobs which require a total compromise of all human decency and basic principles that I thought was reserved for the rare psycopath serial killer types, somehow lacking the critical inherent component of civil human beings, a nature that renders us incapable of comitting atrocities against others, be it our soul, conscience, heart, compassion. Scary to think these highly dangerous types may be much more common than i thought, including working, holding powerful positions within the systems we rely on to keep us, and our loved ones safe from being killed by bad doctors/hospitals The staff at Livanta/CMS/HHS would have to be full of them, as no person of quality with any measure of integrity, principles at all, could accept a paycheck for helping to cover for someone who blatantly killed my mom. The pain of losing a loved one is hard enough. When that loved one is killed by another person, it's a lot harder. There are no words to begin to convey how many times over much harder still it is watching the greatest love of your life, my precious beloved mom, being torturously killed, screaming HELP MEEE, AAAAA, HEEELLLP MEEE, in excruciating agony, all because of the gross extreme neglect, malpractice of a doctor who refused to see her against the adamant urgings of me and a profesional home nurse asking, begging that she needs and requires immeadiate attention. I assure you it is an unimaginable heartwrenching soul crushing indescribable hell that is hard to even go on living with, ONLY MULTIPLIED EVEN MORE MANY TIMES OVER BY THE EVIL DEPRAVED PEOPLE AT LIVANTA PROTECTING MY MOMS KILLER RATHER THAN HOLDING THAT DOCTOR ACCOUNTABLE, WHO I WATCHED, AND HAVE A PROFESSIONAL NURSES WRITTEN STATEMENT, AND A NEW RECENTLY RECIEVED DESCRIPTIVE OUTLINE FROM A NATIONALY RENOWNED HOSPITAL SAFETY & RESEARCH ORGANIZATION DETAILING HOW THE HORRIBLE NEGLECT AND MALPRACTICE OF A DOCTOR KILLED MY MOM, AFTER WALKING INTO THAT HOSPITAL WITH ABSOLUTELY NOTHING LIKE ANYTHING ANYWHERE NEAR LIFE-THREATENING WRONG WITH HER AT ALL. ENTRUSTING HER HEALTH INTO THE HANDS OF AN INCOMPETENT DOCTOR, WHO GRUESOMELY KILLED HER, DYING 100% FROM THINGS DONE TO HER. I FIND IT DISTURBING TO THINK THAT YOU WERE EVEN ABLE TO FIND PERSONEL TO ACCEPT PAYCHECKS FOR BEING ACCOMPLICES TO PROVEN, KNOWN, BLATANT, NEGLIGENT MANSLAUGHTER HOMICIDE, EFFECTIVELY ASSURING AND ENCOURAGING EVEN WORSENING HOSPITAL CONDITIONS AND FURTHER HYPER-ESCALATION OF WRONFUL DEATHS ESPECIALLY OF THE PRECIOUS BELOVED VULNERABLE ELDERLY BECAUSE OF WHAT THE HEARTLESS, SOULESS, SICK EVIL DEPRAVED PEOPLE AT LIVANTA, CMS, HHS, AARP FUNCTIONALLY AND EFFECTIVELY DO. Truly and Sincerely, Robert Snodgrass 484-252-9596
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| August 24, 2023 | Brian | 30337 | bjones7331@gmail.com | Hello my name is Brian Jones and I first started getting neglected and abused back in 2021 at this nursing home called Pruitthealth Of Lilburn in Lilburn Georgia.
| I was verbally abused, I was left sitting in feces and urine for long periods of time, I was denied being put in my wheelchair three times a week as it was stated in my care plan I was denied physical therapy because they said I was not a good candidate the head physical therapist lied and said she did a full body assessment on me and she did not because if she would have she would’ve found out that I can move my legs and arms and that’s the reason why I was denied physical therapy so I had to find outside physical therapist to work with me.
| I wish more people would speak up about it to their love so they know what’s happening to them because it’s going on all over the world and the owners need to be held responsible for what’s going on inside of their facilities
| My hope for the future is that Congress and all lawmakers would step in and hold these owners accountable for what’s happening inside of their facilities stop letting them choose people over profit and make them put some of the money that they made back into their facility because 80% of these facilities are so worn down and downright disgusting.
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| October 20, 2022 | Joy | 72601 | jmangold1978@gmail.com | My mother was admitted to an LTAC (Long Term Acute Care Hospital) in early June 2015 from complications that occurred after her bypass surgery on May 18th, 2015. She was on a ventilator and had wounds on both of her legs, her stomach, and her chest. She was also on dialysis for acute renal failure which can happen after bypass surgery. The wounds on her legs were from the leg compression devices used during surgery which left water blisters on her legs. She had a wound vac on her stomach after having to have part of her colon removed after it perforated after her bypass surgery. It left her with a colostomy.
Mom had health issues before the bypass surgery including diabetes, COPD, and peripheral artery disease. All of these played a role in the post-surgical complications that mom endured. None of these are what caused her death.
| During mom's stay at the LTAC, she was denied food, fluids, therapies, and proper care. All my brother and I heard from the nurses, doctors and even administrators was to put mom in hospice. That isn't what mom wanted. When we made complaints, they tried to tell us that we were crazy or that we couldn't accept what was happening with our mother. Mom was transferred to the LTAC from the post-surgical unit of the hospital where she had her surgery. She was doing well while in the post-surgical unit despite her complications. They had given her a trach so she could eat and drink after passing her swallow test. They had her sitting up in the patient chair and she was even doing her crosswords, word finds, and signing her own paperwork. I have pictures of her two days before her transfer to the LTAC. After her transfer, we had to sign her transfer papers. For some reason, they wouldn't let her sign them. She had been there for two days before we could visit and they had continued the care she received before her transfer. My brother signed them and then went to her room to see her. He wasn't in there but maybe five minutes before a nurse came in and took mom's tray (while she was eating) and put NPO on the door. That was June 12, 2015. Mom wouldn't get her tray of food back until July 4th, 2015. That's how long it took my brother and me to figure out what to do. Neither one of us had ever dealt with anything like this before. I had already called every attorney I could find with no help. I even called the state attorney's office, the hospital abuse hotline, the health department, etc., and could not get any assistance from anyone. Calling to report elder abuse to social services never even occurred to me and no one that I called even mentioned it to me.
Here is a list of things they did to mom during her stay there:
They restrained her wrists to the bed using straps. They would leave her like that for an unknown amount of time. Every time we went to visit we would remove the restraints. There was no one in the room with her while she was restrained and there was no reason for her to be restrained. They would always tell us it was for her own good.
They clipped mom's fingernails down to the quick. She always had beautiful normal length nails. Again no explanation for them cutting her nails that short.
The RN's lied to us when we called to check in on her. We lived hours away from where she was hospitalized. One RN told us that mom had opened her stomach wound (which was on wound vac). Mom didn't and wouldn't do that.
They told us that mom was incoherent but she had numerous conversations with us either writing things to us or whispering to us. Mom had a trach so her voice was gone. She always complained she was hungry and thirsty. We begged the hospital (even the CEO) to give her food tray back. She was on a liquid diet and there was no reason to take it away. They tried to tell us she had stomach issues when she didn't.
They had her as DNR when she wasn't.
Eventually, I fired the doctor that was on her case originally. He didn't even know that she was female and kept referring to her as him. He had lied to us numerous times and during the time I was staying there with mom, he never once came into her room to assess her or anything.
July 3, 2015 a new doctor came on. He assessed mom and the first words out of his mouth were that she was very malnourished and dehydrated. Her wounds, all of them were infected. She had a pressure sore on her back that was also infected.
There is so much that happened that I can't tell everything here. After the new doctor came on, mom was off the ventilator within a week. He had to put a feeding tube down her nose for a few days until she passed another swallow test and eventually made it to eating mechanical food. Within a month she was off dialysis and her kidneys were functioning again. She eventually was transferred to the regular hospital. Her wounds were slowly getting better except for her legs and feet. Her feet were black from blood flow loss and her legs eventually turned gangrene and had to be amputated. If she had received proper care during her entire stay at the LTAC her story might have turned out differently. They had weakened her body with starvation/dehydration. Three days after her double amputation surgery she went into respiratory distress and had to be put back on the ventilator. She was in the ICU again. When she finally became stable she gave up. She was tired of fighting.
She had fought sepsis three times and had numerous other infections during her stay at LTAC. With the malnourishment, she had another small heart attack after having triple bypass surgery weeks before. She almost died several times during their care and they weakened her to the point that she gave up.
| I wish I had known more about it then. I always heard about elder abuse/neglect in nursing homes but never expected it from a hospital setting. When my brother first told me he suspected they were starving our mother I didn't believe him. I told him that they couldn't or wouldn't do that. I didn't even know who to call to get help and those I did call never told me who to call to get help. This LTAC has done what it did to my mother and too many other patients. I couldn't even get an attorney to talk to my mother while she was alive. I now have PTSD from the whole experience. I stayed a month in the hospital with my mom 24/7. I now distrust hospitals, doctors, and nurses which have interfered with my own health.
| I want people to realize that abuse/neglect can happen to their loved ones even in the hospital. Stay vigilant in your loved ones' care. It shouldn't be allowed to happen and most of those who have done it, are protected.
| Yes | Yes | Yes | I've tried reaching out to the media in regard to what happened to my mother. She isn't the only victim of an LTAC. No one listens to her story. I have written blogs about it, even when it occurred. It's sad that so many in the medical field get away with abusing and neglecting those they're supposed to care for. Things need to change. This LTAC also deletes negative reviews (there have been quite a few) from their FB page and other sites. I want others to know my mom's story. She was important and her story is important. It could help save others.
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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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| 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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| September 3, 2023 | Yolanda | 32825 | advocatebcba@gmail.com | My father (89 years old) was living in his own home with my mother, his wife of 62 years in Viera, FL. He & my mother have argued all their married life. Daily. Mostly nit-picking from my mom, but they had plenty of good times as well. My father has undiagnosed ADHD with diagnosed Depression & Alcohol Use Disorder. He was always a good driver, albeit a bit on the risk-taking side. My sister (16 months older than me) hated his driving. Her husband & she live in Texas. I live in Orlando, FL. Post retirement my father had little structure in his life other than playing golf a few times a week & taking walks. Arguments & disagreements became more frequent as he was home more. He was "diagnosed" with Alzheimer's dementia in 2015 based on no objective evidence by a geriatric practitioner without a mental health background.
My sister began "telling" him to stop driving 3-4 years ago. No accidents, no tickets. Just because she didn’t like his driving. In March 2022 my parents found my father's car in the garage with 2 flat tires & fluid leaks. He did not know what had happened. My sister came to visit a few days later & demanded to know what happened. My father did not know.
My sister decided it was a drinking/driving accident with no evidence. She went to his doctor (APRN) with my parents & told them he was drinking & driving. The APRN told him she was sending a license revocation to the DMV. My father was very upset. My sister took his car keys & hid them, then flew back to TX. When he became understandably upset, she returned & convinced my mother to place him in a secured memory care tricking him into going to have his arthritic foot evaluated. No talking to him about it. Nothing. This was March 2022. No guardianship.
Did he have an accident? Turned out to be a damaged strut. Whether the strut gave way due to age (they had never been replaced) or hitting a curve is unknown. But he had driven the car home from his location 1 mile away, opened the garage door, and parked in the garage. The damage was not noted until the next day, making it highly likely that he did NOT know what had happened.
I was out of state at the time & was completely left out of the situation until I returned. When I visited him in this secure facility, he was crying, very upset at being locked up, stating he was losing his mind. I began making waves & my sister filed for guardianship.
| Elder Abuse - Long story short, her predatory guardianship attorney, the facility administrator, and my sister decided to trespass me from the facility throughout the 6-month pre-trial phase. My father was at the mercy of my sister who lied to him about the guardianship proceedings. He was locked up 8 months before his adjudicatory hearing, with the facility ensuring he could not leave, despite his signing a Revocation of POA in June 2022. He was denied a 2nd opinion in October 2022.
At trial in December 2022, the guardianship attorney, the facility administrator, my sister, the APRN, and the contracted psychiatrist all committed perjury influencing the judge. This was positively verified through my diligent review of medical records & emails post-trial. I did not have an attorney & am having difficulty knowing how to present the perjury to the Judge as she is clearly biased. Medical records I received post-trial reflect normal aging. MoCA assessments performed (14 over 7 years) reflect variable performance, standard for seniors in their 80’s & 90’s per the research. He has been treated for depression for well over a decade. He’s on tons of medications.
| My sister was appointed guardian & refuses to listen to my father’s wishes. He BEGS to be permitted to go home & CRIES about how lonely he is. There is next to nothing to do in this place. It’s clean, pretty & boring. My sister only permits me to visit with a biased case manager (friend of the attorney) whom I have to pay $142.00 for each visit.
My Dad is dying from loneliness & depression & there is nothing I can do. It is very sad.
This town of Viera Florida has 1 GA court with 1 GA Judge, well-connected with the local GA lawyers. While this particular attorney is now being investigated by the Florida Bar, it doesn’t help my father at this point. He has been locked up for over 18 months & is not permitted to even see or visit his OWN home. Does the Judge care? No.
| Florida Guardianship rules need to be changed. GA Judges should have a solid background in GA law. Private family guardians must be held accountable for their actions towards the Ward. GA Judges should automatically appoint Eldercaring Coordination for high-conflict cases. (The new GA Judge, post-trial, denied Eldercaring, silencing my father's voice). GA courts should demand hard evidence & NOT permit oral testimony as the only form of evidence provided. Family members without the benefit of an attorney should be provided a source of legal counsel. Memory care facilities should NOT be permitted the ability to Trespass a family member without evidence of disruption or criminal activity.
| Yes | Yes | Yes | This was a horrifying eye-opening experience. Florida Statutes ensure a Ward retains several rights such as visitation & access to the courts. This should not be an area a Guardian or a predatory Guardianship attorney can violate or distort. My father is literally dying from the intense depression & loneliness his own daughter & wife have caused him & just wants to spend the rest of his life in his own home, which he is not even permitted to visit.
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| June 9, 2023 | Virginia | 24523 | mexicoginnyk@yahoo.com | My late husband and I moved to a 'senior' community in Virginia (Runk & Pratt, Hardy VA) at age 83. We relied on the information we were provided, both in print and 'on line' and purchased an 'independent cottage' only to learn that their advertising was false and misleading. We learned that our 'likeness' was (and still is) being used in their advertisements, without our knowledge or permission, which I understand is a violation of both federal and Commonwealth of Virginia laws. We subsequently moved back to Florida, where my husband died in April 2021. Plrior to selling our cottage in Virginia, I spent many months researching their fraud and after informing the other cottage owners, they were for the most part reluctant to address the issue, mostly out of fear of 'causing trouble' and/or the fact that they were not physically, or in some cases, mentally able to deal with it and/or move elsewhere.
| I would like to share the fact that 'seniors' need to be very diligent when researching senior living communities and if and when they detect fraud they need to be brave enough to address the issue and not just become silent victims.
| I wish more people knew about elder abuse, neglect and fraud, but most of all I wish more people actually cared and were willing to speak up. Until they do, it will continue.
| I moved back to Virginia after my husband's death, in order to live near one of my sons. I am currently living in a senior community and own my own condo. Once again, I am experiencing the lack of courage on the part of the residents to address issues with our current HOA. Until seniors are willing to speak up they will continue to be victims - it's just tht simple.
| Yes | Yes | Yes | I would like to add the fact that I spent most of my life serving others, including serving as a Peace Corops volunteer (S. Pacific 1984-1986), serving as a court advocate for battered women, guardian ad litem for abused and abandoned children, and in various other capacities. I'm ready, willing and able, to speak on behalf of seniors to help bring awareness to this ongoing abuse. The challenge appears to be finding people who care.
I'm a retired Federal Public Affairs Specialist (Peace Corps, U.S. Air Force & E.P.A). I am experienced in dealing with media and more than willing to take the message where it will do the most good.
Thanks for all you are doing!
Virginia (Ginny) Kenyon
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| November 2, 2023 | Penelope | 12095 | penelopeagramonte@yahoo.com | I was a victim of elder abuse 4 years ago. My son and his girlfriend were homeless and pregnant. He came to me in my Hud housing and told me this. I felt sorry and guilty for having a place like I did. They could not stay with me there, so they found a house to rent. Everything was peachy until we were in the house and I was paying. Then they told me to stay away from their refrigerator and their food. See, I paid the rent and they were supposed to provide food to share expenses. I had to call APS to help me. I moved out and the police were called by my son's borderline gf because I had some things on the curb I was not taking I was throwing away. Long story short, the movers took the stuff I couldn't and the officer was kind and advised me to never go back to live there. I should never have believed my son and his gf. They have since had the child, and custody is temporarily to her sister. Again, they came to me and asked me for help. Seeing my grandson and son suffering is a powerful way to override my common sense. They asked me at first and I was caring for my grandson but my son was taking him during the day and not bringing him back until late at night. I told CPS that I could no longer do this. They placed him safely with her sister. Now, they rented an apartment next to me, are both on crack, act eradically and ignore me or make side remarks in the hallway. I am a 65 year old with PTSD living next to them, My abusers. The police advised me to put an order of protection in and they will be out. They know this and are quiet but I am on tenterhooks waiting for the next outburst of behavior. His gf has borderline personality disorder. I will put the order in it starts up again. So me, as a disabled RN have to know that my son is taking crack next door and I can't do a thing about it. A horrible way to spend my son called golden years. If they don't pay rent they will be evicted and peace will reign again. Until then life is depressing for me watching this. But I have faith and friends to keep me going. Elder abuse is real, drugs are an element in it. That's my story.
| Don't help children who are living a drug life no matter what is happening. Take care of your money and yourself because you will be used for your income and treated like trash. Let them sink or swim. That sounds harsh but it is today's reality. A person on SSD is a breathing ATM and not much else. This is the hidden collateral damage of drug users.
| Elders actually have very little protection and APS showing up changed things for me. If not I would have starved and paying their way too. I also had emotional abuse but I guess that is obvious.
| I want a peaceful quiet life free from guilt from my son for his mistakes and life choices. I hope I told my story well enough for you to understand it.
| Yes | Yes | No | Contact by email with PTSD I cannot do media and am afraid of stirring up trouble with them next door.
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| September 10, 2023 | Denise | 35611 | d.mccafferrey@yahoo.com | When I first moved to Hampton Lane my life was pain-free. I could walk my property on my own without any problem. Walk out to my chickens to feed and water them three (3) times a day. Walk out to my mailbox at the street without any problem whatsoever. I was a healthy 62-year-old disabled woman. I traveled to the state of Michigan to assist my mother with her legal battle against other family members that wanted to take control over her personal affairs and her life.
| On 08/03/2015, people living in the location of my home trespassed onto my land and slapped listening devices all over my windows. These people installed an electronic device on the roof of my home. This device generated a field of energy that bombarded a 3-5-mile radius of land surrounding my house. This electronic device appeared to have three (3) abusive settings. One setting felt like raw energy that consumed everything in its path. This created a very abusive environment that consumed my floors, furniture, etc. One setting felt like my whole body was being pelted with pins and needles. Some of the pins and needles hit my eyes. One setting seemed to be able to generate so much pressure that it caused disorientation. I could not move about my home without holding onto a solid fixture.
| Virtual Reality software and/or technology took masturbation to new levels of sexual gratification. What the public does not know is that the same Virtual Reality software can do serious bodily injury in the hands of someone with a criminal mind. An intelligent criminal mind intent on murder and destruction. People, intelligent people, dismantled the underbelly of my home in order to install a variety of torturous electronic devices. Electronic devices with the intent to cause the house to break apart into pieces. Electronic devices intent on physical abuse to the point of crippling a person's body. People with the intent to murder the homeowner to confiscate the property. People that were supposedly neighbors.
| I am currently 70-years old and do not have much hope for a future. My future looks very bleak due to the negligence and/or ignorance of law enforcement personnel. People in criminal justice classes have been taught to use Virtual Reality to recreate crime scenes for the purpose of analytic evaluation. However, in the real world, law enforcement personnel do not seem to connect Virtual Reality software enhancements that are utilized to commit crimes. My only hope is to expose the fact that the criminal justice training is being used as an excuse for blaming a victim and/or labeling them as an incompetent. I want Congress and the Administration to know that law enforcement personnel do not give the impression that they have any criminal justice education and/or training whatsoever. Law enforcement personnel are not effective with crimes that are being committed with computerized technology.
| Yes | Yes | Yes | This brutality from my so-called neighbors has been allowed to abuse every person that lives in a 20-30-mile radius surrounding my home. I cannot be the only person suffering with the loss of mobility. I cannot be the only victim of physical pain caused by my environment. I know that this abusive power source could end my life. I know that my fingers appear to be suffering with what looks like burn trauma, i.e., skin melting to the sides of my fingertips, etc. I know that my eyesight is being taken away without a legitimate medical reason. I know that my hands look like they have been cut to pieces with laser precision.
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| September 10, 2023 | Julia Hardee | 32034 | 3152965898 | My Elderly father, Billy B. of southern Virginia, was not diagnosed early for his dementia. My mother knew something wasn't right with dad's memory because she was keeping track of everything for him well before she died suddenly in 2010. She simply stated that he was forgetful and couldn't remember much of anything, like doctor's appts., his keys, passwords on his computer, and where he was supposed to go on any given day when plans were made, and important appointments made. After mother died in 2010, his memory losses were more apparent by my son who lived with him and tried to help him with whatever he needed, cooking, cleaning, laundry, passwords, appts.
He was diagnosed with advanced dementia in 2019, when the decline was so severe that persons known to him and myself had already taken a joint savings from his bank, then all household furnishings, guns, tools, and everything that he had from neighbors, old friends, even some distant relatives who targeted him for anything they could get out of him. By the time I was told what had happened, it was too late, in 2021.
A long known family friend, also an RN, alerted me to the situation six years (in 2021) after I was stationed in Virginia to assist my dad. My son and I were told to leave him alone in 2014. So as we both left, the only close NOK left, my son and I hoped he would be okay.
| I drove back to Virginia in March 2021 to get more information on who was involved and what had happened to my father's house and property. My father was unable to see me due to COVID, afraid of contact with anyone. As we spoke by phone he stated that as he went to his bank a few years ago to get some money for his car repairs, and the bank manager told him that his savings account was empty and closed! Bank Manager further stated that, "his daughter and her husband" had come in with a "note" stating, that "they were the only surviving relatives and since my mother had passed away," "they wanted to close the account." My father repeatedly asked his Elder Law Attorney for assistance in the matter, but was never given any hope of finding out how and why this happened. Note: my dad did continue to ask his attorney for years over and over again to help in this matter of his savings account closure and all the missing money. Police were never contacted! I don't know that this attorney ever did anything about this!
I was shocked to hear this, as I hadn't been back to Virginia since 2014. Immediately I went to the bank branch, two police departments, and called numerous state agencies, including APS, State Police, and many Federal Agencies. I called my father back to tell him I going to do my best to have this investigated.
| Elder Abuse, Financial Abuse, and/or neglect is criminally wrong. There needs to be an easier way to prosecute persons who think they have gotten away with criminal acts against vulnerable elderly citizens. When you see this happening again and again, it's not an accident, nor just a one time incident. These persons who target the elderly by befriending them, talking them into doing things the Elder Persons normally wouldn't do, is one of worst of criminal and deceitful minds in our society. They must be found, interviewed, vetted by every agency for any sales of property, and carefully looked at to see if their standard of living has changed. I know that some of these persons suddenly moved out of the neighborhood after I started asking for police and other agencies to investigate!
| Let the local, state, and federal agencies do their jobs, I found out so much information on my own just calling and asking questions about my father and the persons who were targeting him. I will keep going with my investigation, and questioning to everyone I can find that knew or saw what was happening. This was HIS property, not mine, but many family heirlooms, guns, tools, machinery that he had is now gone. All because too many persons saw how vulnerable he was and just stepped in and took whatever he had that was precious to him, and his family. The other side of this is that he may have needed some of the money, and resources that were taken to help him go into a nursing home, or assisted living facility, and it's all gone now! I am so eager to speak out about this situation, because so many people have been victimized and hurt by perpetrators who think they can do this to anyone who's vulnerable!
If his Elder Attorney would not step in to help him when he asked for assistance, than who does the Elderly victim trust now, if they cannot trust their own attorney???
| Yes | Yes | Yes | YES-I will talk to anyone, media, public, elder groups, law enforcement - whether live in-person interview, via video, any way I can help-you name i!. Not afraid to tell this story, it we can stop this and share the clues and warning signs on how it all starts and continues for the very vulnerable Elderly community in today's society!
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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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