Most people do not realize that even when they hire through a professional service to receive a caretaker for your loved one, they can still be deceived. A live-in caretaker has the access to all your loved one’s personal belongings and the most intimate possessions. It is crucial that you do appropriate background checks when choosing a caretaker for your loved one and to make sure that they can be trusted.
Continue Reading...In Hilton Head Island, South Carolina a caregiver at an assisted living center was charged with elder abuse that she committed against several of the women staying there. The Hilton Head assisted living center reported that the 41-year-old Sonia King of Estill will be charged with three counts of abuse of a vulnerable adult.
Continue Reading...In Pittsboro, NC Becky Fisher, 80, is seeking compensation from her assisted living center in Chatman County after surviving an attack by a housekeeper that left two other residents dead. The attack was four years ago with two her friends Peg Murta and Mary Corcoran. Barbara Clark is now serving life in prison because she killed Murta and Corcoran because the three women confronted her about stealing $1,000 from their checking account. Becky Fisher was lucky to survive the attack, suffering a cracked skull and brain injuries from Clark beating her with a walking cane.
Continue Reading...According to a report from the San Francisco Herald, a judge halted certain restrictions set in place by California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger that would restrict anybody with felony convictions from providing in-home care to elderly and disabled adults.
Continue Reading...The Patient Safety and Abuse Prevention Act was reintroduced into the Senate this week. The bill is intended to prevent workers with criminal histories from working in skilled nursing facilities.
The bill requires each state to establish coordinated systems that include checks against neglect and abuse registries, the FBI database and state police records.
The bill had been introduced last year but failed to make it out of Congress.
State background investigation requirements are checkered and lack any uniformity making it easy for someone with a criminal conviction in one state to escape detection in another.
If this legislation becomes law, it will go a long way in reducing violence to nursing home residents.
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