Dumped: Nursing Home Evictions a Reality for Some Poor Patients

"Nationally, long-term care ombudsmen, who advocate for elderly and disabled residents of nursing homes and assisted living facilities, received 10,610 complaints about discharges and transfers in 2017, up from 9,192 in 2015. The ombudsmen, whose work is federally mandated and state-funded, receive more complaints about discharges and transfers than any other grievance.

The complaints likely expose just a small fraction of the problem, said Kelly Bagby, vice president at the AARP Foundation, a nonprofit that serves vulnerable people over 50.

“Most people don’t even know they have rights,” she said. And many complaints never result in a formal state investigation."

“It is illegal to discriminate against residents based on payment source, but it happens all the time,” said Tony Chicotel, attorney at the California Advocates for Nursing Home Reform, a nonprofit that supports long-term care residents in the state. “It feels like there’s just a tidal wave of cases.”

Some nursing homes are illegally evicting elderly and disabled residents who can't afford to pay

Nursing Home Fight Club??? ELDER ABUSE!!!

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (WNCN) — Three nursing home employees are charged with creating a senior fight club. The residents they were supposed to be caring for, dementia patients, at the center of it.

Marilyn McKey, Tonacia Tyson, and DeShawn Jordan are facing assault charges.

Investigators confirm it happened at the Danby House, it’s an assisted living and memory care facility in Winston-Salem.

https://www.wbtv.com/2019/10/15/nursing-home-employees-accused-creating-senior-fight-club/

Caregiver Exploited Elderly Woman, Stole $11K

"A Rock Hill (SC) caregiver is accused of exploiting an elderly woman she helped take care of by stealing around $11,000 over a four-month scam while making grocery runs, according to police.

Amy Beth Comer, 43, is charged with exploitation of a vulnerable adult, and financial card fraud, said Lt. Michael Chavis of the Rock Hill Police Department."

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Trump Administration Cuts The Size Of Fines For Health Violations In Nursing Homes

"The decrease in fines is one of the starkest examples of how, in response to industry prodding, the Trump administration is rolling back Obama's aggressive regulation of health care services.

Encouraged by the nursing home industry, the Trump administration switched from fining nursing homes for each day they were out of compliance — as the Obama administration typically did — to issuing a single fine for two-thirds of infractions, the records show.

That reduces the impact of the penalty, critics say, giving nursing homes less incentive to fix faulty and dangerous practices before someone gets hurt."

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Sisters Charged With Murdering Their Father

Sisters charged with murdering their father after one confesses to their shared lover

Authorities said their boyfriend recorded one of the sisters saying they suffocated Anthony Tomaselli, 85, to death because he did not want to go into assisted living.

By Minyvonne Burke

Two sisters in Florida almost got away with the "perfect murder" of their elderly father until one of them confessed to the man they were both romantically involved with, authorities said.

Linda Roberts and Mary-Beth Tomaselli were arrested Tuesday and charged with first-degree murder, four years after their father, Anthony Tomaselli, 85, died in their Palm Harbor home.

Detectives began investigating Anthony Tomaselli's death as a homicide last month after a man dating both sisters called the sheriff's department and said Roberts, 62, had confessed to him that she and Mary-Beth Tomaselli, 63, "euthanized" their father because he was ill and would not go into an assisted living facility.

Sisters Charged

My Brother Borrowed $50,000 From My Dad and Never Paid it Back

My father is elderly and lives in Kansas and has a large revocable trust that he and my mother (now deceased) created in 2003. My older brother is the co-trustee and helps my dad with bills, etc. My brother took out a $50,000 loan in secret from my father a number of years ago. He is a co-trustee of my father’s estate.

My father told me recently that my brother never paid it back and that he told my father that he didn’t feel he needed to pay it back. What is the best way to address this so that this doesn’t happen again? Can anything be done about it? It appears there is no documentation, but my brother is furious that I found out about it.

My brother is also forging checks that he writes from my father’s checkbook. It is unknown if he is buying anything for himself or if he is forging checks only to pay bills. Is it unreasonable to request that he provide a periodic accounting to the two other beneficiaries (every three to six months) and what should a periodic accounting report include?

When my father passes, a bank is designated in the trust to be the entity that will be distributing the estate, not my brother.

Concerned Daughter

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Financial Elder Abuse 

BITCHES!

Court Rules Billionaire Sumner Redstone is Incapacitated Appoints Legal Guardian

By HALLIE DETRICK 

Media mogul Sumner Redstone is set to be the latest client of Samuel Ingham, who previously served as a court-appointed conservator for pop star Britney Spears.

Redstone, the controlling shareholder of CBS and Viacom, was ruled incapacitated by a Los Angeles Judge on Monday. Ingham was appointed as an independent legal guardian.

The ruling came as part of ongoing litigation about Redstone’s trust. Manuela Herzer, a former companion of Redstone’s, filed a lawsuit to be reinstated in his will after she was written out in 2016. That lawsuit has been withdrawn, but earlier this year Redstone filed to preserve the 2016 change.

Herzer’s lawyers have argued that Sumner Redstone’s daughter, Shari Redstone, is directing the litigation, and lawyers for Sumner Redstone and his grandson, Tyler Korff, asked for a review of his competence to prevent appeals on those grounds at a later date.

The judge ruled that Sumner Redstone was incapacitated on the grounds of a severe speech impairment, but specified that the ruling had no bearing on his mental competence.

http://fortune.com/2018/12/17/sumner-redstone-incapacitated-legal-guardian/

See also: http://benamarine.blogspot.com/2016/11/media-mogul-sumner-redstone-sues-ex.html

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