Dec 19, 2019 | elder-care absue, elder-care neglect, Nursing Home Abuse, Nursing Home Neglect
By WSAZ News Staff | Posted: Thu 4:23 PM, Dec 19, 2019 | Updated: Thu 4:31 PM, Dec 19, 2019
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WSAZ) – A man from Charleston faces charges in connection with the alleged abuse of an 86-year-old man in a nursing home.
Michael Hancock, 48, of Charleston, is charged with being a caregiver of an incapacitated adult who intentionally and maliciously abuses or neglects an incapacitated adult and caused the incapacitated adult bodily injury. That’s according to a Kanawha County criminal complaint.
The complaint states that the victim, a resident at a nursing home in Marmet, suffered injuries to his hands. The incident allegedly happened in late November.
Dec 19, 2019 | elder-care absue, elder-care neglect, Nursing Home Abuse, Nursing Home Neglect
By Chris Anderson | December 19, 2019 at 2:38 PM EST – Updated December 20 at 1:57 AM
CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) – Two Democratic legislators proposed a bill that would allow families to place video recording devices in nursing home rooms to help eliminate elder abuse.
“There are approximately 16,000 cases of elder abuse reported every year in Ohio,” said Rep. Juanita Brent.
Elder abuse is defined as knowing and intentional neglect or abuse from a caregiver to a vulnerable adult.
If passed, residents of nursing homes and assisted living facilities, as well as their families, could provide consent to install private cameras in their rooms.
Dec 16, 2019 | elder-care absue, elder-care neglect, Nursing Home Abuse, Nursing Home Neglect
POSTED 9:42 PM, DECEMBER 16, 2019, BY PEGGY LEE, UPDATED AT 11:07PM, DECEMBER 16, 2019
WILKES-BARRE, Pa. — A nursing home aide is accused of assaulting a woman in her care in Wilkes-Barre.
Police arrested Berianne Smith, 24, from Wilkes-Barre on charges that she attacked that resident.
Wilkes-Barre police say it was inside the Allied Services Meade Street Skilled Nursing facility on South Meade Street that a nursing home aide attacked a resident living here.
Officers were called to former Little Flower Manor Saturday evening after another aide told them he witnessed Smith assault that resident around 2:15 p.m. that afternoon.
Dec 12, 2019 | elder-care absue, elder-care neglect, Nursing Home Abuse, Nursing Home Neglect
By Maggie Flynn | December 12, 2019
If Sen. Chuck Grassley has his way, a new oversight bill for nursing homes will be introduced this month — one that reauthorizes the Elder Justice Act and sets up new funding for various programs in the 2010 law, passed as part of the Affordable Care Act.
Elder abuse is a long-standing issue for Grassley, the Republican chairman of the Senate Finance Committee who, with Democratic Sen. Ron Wyden, held a series of hearings related to elder abuse and issues in nursing homes this year.
In his prepared opening remarks to the July 23 hearing on elder justice, he stressed the importance of revisiting some of the programs in the act. And in a recent interview with Skilled Nursing News in his Washington office, the Iowa senator re-emphasized the need to include key provisions for oversight — specifically those he believes have been overlooked in the past
Dec 11, 2019 | elder-care absue, elder-care neglect, Nursing Home Abuse, Nursing Home Neglect, Nursing Homes
By EMILY CORWIN • DEC 11, 2019
Vermont families who rely on eldercare homes often know little about their track records, despite state inspections that document problem after problem. Families make crucial care decisions in the dark.
Sherry Boudreau, a professional home-care provider, thought she was well qualified to make choices on behalf of her mother-in-law, Theresa Boudreau. The octogenarian agreed: As dementia was taking hold, she granted Sherry medical power of attorney.
Theresa, a resident of the Meadows at East Mountain in Rutland, began falling in 2015. She often tumbled from her wheelchair to the floor. In April 2018, the 87-year-old suffered a brain hemorrhage and broke facial bones in a fall that knocked her unconscious.
Dec 11, 2019 | elder-care absue, elder-care neglect, Nursing Home Abuse, Nursing Home Neglect, Nursing Homes
By Kadee Brosseau | Posted: Wed 5:14 PM, Dec 11, 2019 | Updated: Wed 5:34 PM, Dec 11, 2019
CRANE, Mo. — A Stone County man has been sentenced to seven years in prison after pleading guilty to first degree sexual abuse.
Paul Christianson, 44, of Crane was originally accused of raping two mentally handicapped women at Ozark Mountain Regional Healthcare in Crane.
According to online court records, Christianson accepted a plea deal on December 2, 2019. In addition to being sentenced to seven years in the Missouri Department of Corrections for the sexual abuse conviction, Christianson will also undergo the 120 day Sex Offender Assessment Unit (SOAU) program. Under state law, if Christianson successfully completes the program, he could be released on probation after serving 120 days.
