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"Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for,
forgotten by everybody,
I think that is a much greater hunger,
a much greater poverty than the person
who has nothing to eat.
We must find each other."
Mother Teresa
Catholic Missionary
Cited in More of...The Best of Bits and Pieces
ELDER ABUSE
AN OVERVIEW
 READ THIS
  Do Existing Laws Adequately Protect
The Estates of Infirmed Seniors
vs
Fraud, Duress & Undue Influence?
 ELDER ABUSE, CONTEXT AND ETHICS
By John Hartwig
Hartwig's article is an excellent point
to begin examining the issue of elderly abuse.
Care of Elders in the Community: Moral Lives, Moral Quandaries
By Martha Holstein and Phyllis Mitzen, guest editors
A Delicate Balance:
Assisting Elderly Victims of Abuse and Neglect
Position Paper
B.C. Seniors' Advisory Council
December 1992
International Coalition on Abuse and Disability
Abuse and Neglect Reported by APS Agencies
Characteristics of Elderly Victims, Reported to APS
Civil, Criminal and Administration
Remedies in Cases of
Abuse, Neglect and Financial Exploitation of the Elderly
COLORADO GERONTOLOGICAL SOCIETY AND SENIOR ANSWERS
by Martha L. Ridgway
Ridgway, Romeo & Vincent, LLC
FOR MORE FINANCIAL ABUSE OF THE ELDERLY
SEE "SAVING GRACE" PAGE
ELDER FINANCIAL ABUSE
"Understanding Elder Abuse"
The Wisconsin Geriatric Education Center is pleased
to offer "Understanding Elder Abuse"
on the World Wide Web.
This course is offered for
.6 continuing education units
through the Marquette University Division of Continuing Education.
This self study, online course
provides an overview of elder abuse issues,
and includes study questions and exercises,
and resource listings.
ABUSE OF THE ELDERLY
Elder Abuse Prevention and Treatment Resources Page
ELDER ABUSE
Elder Maltreatment And Abuse
JAMA HEALTH INSIGHTS
STATISTICAL INFORMATION
Abuse Reported by APS Agencies
ELDERLY ABUSE STATISTICAL INFORMATION
S THIS ELDERLY ABUSE
MERCK ON ELDERLY ABUSE
NATIONAL CENTER ON ELDER ABUSE
NEW YOUR ELDERLY ABUSE COALITION
KELN BIBLIOGRAPHY ON ELDER ABUSE
ADULT PROTECTIVE SERVICES PROGRAM
The Adult Protective Services Program
of the DHSS Division of Services
for Aging and Adults with Physical Disabilities
provides social service intervention
for physically or mentally impaired adults,
age eighteen and over, who are living in the community
and who are subject to abuse, neglect or exploitation
NEWS OF SENIOR CITIZENS
Elder Abuse
MICHAEL SCHWARTZ'S COMPENDIUM OF ELDER ABUSE LAW
THE SENIOR JUSTICE LEAGUE
THE ACCESS TO JUSTICE NETWORK
WOOLF GERONTOLOGICAL PAGE
http://www.webster.edu/~woolflm/gero.html
INSTITUTIONAL ABUSE
Vulnerable in a Safe Place:
Institutional Elder Abuse
D. Wierucka & D. Goodridge
Abstract
LIEBERMAN ON USE OF PSYCHOTROPIC DRUGS IN NURSING HOMES
Geriatric Nursing Online
March/April 1999 • Volume 20 • Number 2
Dysphagia Among Nursing Home Residents
Jeanie Kayser-Jones, RN, PhD, FAAN
Kathryn Pengilly, MA
Dysphagia is an uncomfortable, frightening,
and potentially life-threatening condition
that affects a large proportion
of nursing home residents.
As part of a larger study that
investigated the social, cultural, clinical, and environmental
factors that influenced nutritional
intake in two proprietary nursing homes,
82 of 100 residents who were not eating well
received a bedside dysphagia screening evaluation
by a speech pathologist.
This article reports on the dysphagia evaluation
results and the consequences of swallowing disorders
for nursing home residents.
Forty-five of the 82 residents (55%) had some degree of dysphagia,
ranging from mild to profound, but only 10 of these 45 residents
(22%) had been referred for a dysphagia evaluation.
Unrecognized and unmanaged dysphagia
may lead to dehydration, malnutrition,
aspiration pneumonia, and asphyxiation.
Assessment and management of dysphagia
also are discussed.
(Geriatr Nurs 1999;20:77-84)
INCIDENCE REPORTING
A HELPFUL FORM TO US
WHEN REPORTING INCIDENTS OF ABUSE
AND NEGLECT IN NURSING HOMES
USED BY NURSING HOMES
INCIDENCE REPORTING
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EXCELLENT
 CITIZENS COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS
PSYCHIATRY-VICTIMIZING THE ELDERLY
PSYCH CRIME
FRAUD
http://www.ktb.net/~psycrime/pc-fraud.htm
World Medical Association
Declaration on the Abuse of the Elderly
Adopted by the 41st World Medical Assembly
Hong Kong, September 1989
RESOURCES
VIDEOS
LIFELINE......PREVENTING ELDER ABUSE.
Videotape produced by the
California Attorney General's Office
in association with the California Department of Aging. 1992.
Length: 25 minutes.
To order copies,
call (916) 638-8383 in California
or (800) 982-1420
outside California.
Cost $24.95
This is a coummunity education and awareness videotape
moderated by Betty White, a familiar television personality
and author of a recently published autobiography
HERE WE GO AGAIN: MY LIFE IN TELEVISION (1995)
"The video urges us towards vigilance
in our observations for signs of abuse or neglect
that might require outside intervention
in the lives of those around us.
And we are admonished against living in isolation
in our own lives
and our caregiving of others as they age;
both require the development
of a strong supportive network
to link the individual with a larger community."
from MEDIA REVIEWS,
JOURNAL OF ELDER ABUSE AND NEGLECT
Vol8(1) 1996
Haworth Press, Inc.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Ethics Bibliography
Revised 15 September 1999
AGING AND ETHICAL ISSUES
http://www.uvm.edu/~scutler/ethics.html#hctt
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IN THE NEWS
READ THIS
THIS ARTICLE HAS SOME EXCELLENT
SUGGESTIONFS FOR PROTECTIONS AGAINST SCAMS
Have I got a deal for you!
America's elderly are No. 1 targets for swindlers and scam operations
By Staff Writer Jeanne Sahadi
February 14, 2000: 8:45 a.m. ET
Manager steals $110,000 from 82-year-old man
Bill would require more training for adult-caregivers
Committee chairwoman confident training measure will pass
WESTERN WHEEL
RCMP Warn Residents Of Travelling Scam Artists
By John Barlow
LAS VEGAS SUN
December 16, 1999
Woman charged in elder abuse case
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
UCSF ELECTONIC DAILY
DAYBREAK
newsbreak
1st appeared 18 June 1999
Advocating Humane Treatment in Nursing Homes
See Page from
EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT NURSING HOMES
Links to News on Elderly Issues
ASSOCIATION TO PROTECT THE ELDERLY
READ THIS
NEED FOR POWER OF ATTORNEY
NURSING HOME WILL NOT RELEASE MOTHER
FROM NURSING HOME
^0Baby Boomers -- An Alert
About Medicaid and Your Parents!
Social workers, employed by the government,
can legally place your elderly parent
in a nursing home without first notifying you
and without your parent's permission!
NEW YORK
TaxPac USA
THIS MONTH'S FEATURED ARTICLE
"DRUGGING GRANNY"
AN INCREDIBLE STORY OF GOVERNMENT'S
ABUSE OF Taxpac's IRENE WILLIAMS
AND THE ONGOING BATTLE TO
OVERCOME INJUSTICE!
A MUST READ!
EXAMPLE OF CORPORATE ABUSE AND FRAUD
FROM
HEALTHCARE INTELLIGENCE NETWORK
Please See the article
Healthcare Industry/Managed Care:
Justice’s Big-Dollar Claim Against Vencor
is Bad News for Other Creditors
May 11, 2000
This article states:
"Among the specific alleged misdeeds are that Vencor"
billed Medicare individually for services provided in bunches.
For example, if Vencor or a subsidiary provided
portable X-ray services to five patients at a single
location at one time, the company would
charge five separate portage fees.
In some cases, two portage fees would be
charged for two X-rays of the same patient.
overbilled for dialysis services by
routinely drawing blood twice for a battery
of tests that only required a single draw.
folded costs incurred by its contract services
business into its long-term care hospitals,
increasing the cost-to-charge ratios
that determine Medicare disbursements.
"harvested" for resale drugs not used away
from the facility by long-term Medicare
patients for a day or more,
while still billing the patients.
kept patients in more-expensive hospitals
longer than necessary, for example by forbidding
discharges on Fridays to keep them over the weekend.
billed for a high level of care when
that care was not provided,
including charges for cardiac monitors without paper.
gave sales staff titles such as "case managers"
in order to bill Medicare for
sales calls to prospective patients.
required facility administrators to make
“increased Medicare utilization” a “tactical objective,”
through means such as offering paid holidays
and bonuses to medical workers.
The staff allegedly was trained to write medical orders
to show necessity for maximizing services.
Respiratory therapists were told to “comb the patient chart”
to find a reason to provide therapy;
if they couldn’t, the charts were changed.
falsified collection letters in order to
bill Medicare for bad debts.
held psychiatric patients unnecessarily
for the lifetime 180-day maximum,
guaranteeing the highest disbursement
but essentially preventing the person from
ever receiving inpatient treatment again.
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