Elder abuse: Do you know the signs?

Posted on Thursday, Jul. 17, 2014 — 4:57 PM

Elder abuse in the home or in nursing facilities can take on a variety of forms, some of which may not be obvious. Stacey Bonner of the Vanderbilt Child and Family Center speaks with Terry Kornman, outreach coordinator with FiftyForward Victory over Crime, about elder abuse and how to recognize the signs of abuse in an older adult.

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Reporting Elder Abuse Now Colorado Law

Boulder County honored in 2012 a credit union employee who contacted Longmont police when an 85-year-old customer reported $50,000 missing from an account.

That same year, a King Soopers employee in Lafayette also received the Elder Abuse and Prevention Award for warning a senior citizen who wanted to wire money that he likely was falling for a scam.

While those people voluntarily did the right thing, a new Colorado law requires employees and volunteers in a wide range of professions to report suspected elder abuse to police within 24 hours of witnessing the abuse or exploitation of someone who is 70 or older.

"We need the public's help to stop these types of crimes," Longmont Police Cmdr. Jeff Satur said. 

http://nasga-stopguardianabuse.blogspot.com/2014/07/reporting-elder-abuse-now-colorado-law.html

Fact Sheet on Elder Abuse and Other Resources for Settlement Workers

Legal Resources for Settlement Workers

The Justice Education Society has produced a series of 15 new Legal Fact Sheets for New Immigrants. Each fact sheet is available in English, Chinese simplified and traditional, Punjabi, Korean and Farsi. The fact sheets are available as free print resources for settlement workers to distribute to their clients. To request copies of the printed fact sheets, please contactinfo@JusticeEducation.ca. The fact sheets are also available online:  JusticeEducation.ca, Clicklaw and ImmigrantLegal.ca (based on the topic). This project was funded by the Depart of Justice Canada and BC Ministry of Justice. http://us5.campaign-archive1.com/?u=f1bd7125982a1806c54d04b91&id=2fc9c61b15&e=ab764256d9

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New Elder Justice Roadmap to Combat Abuse of Elderly

Posted by: CMSCG

Today the Department of Justice (DOJ) and Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released the Elder Justice Roadmap, which outlines the most important priorities for preventing elder abuse in America. DOJ has created a free online curriculum for attorneys to help them identify and respond to elder abuse. HHS will be creating a voluntary national adult protective services (APS) data system, according to the press release. This will allow data collection to identify and address gaps that currently exist about these victims. The Elder Justice Roadmap identifies the top five priorities for understanding and reducing elder abuse, many of which naturally are related to caregivers and long term care.

The top five priorities include:

• Awareness
• Brain Health
• Caregiving
• Economics
• Resources

Why do nursing homes factor in? Well the document reveals these following points:

http://cmscompliancegroup.com/2014/07/09-elder-justice-roadmap/

Senior Citizen Discount Card

The Senior Citizen Discount Card Connects LOCAL Businesses with Senior Citizens so Everyone can Benefit.

Senior Citizens simply check our website to see a current list of participating businesses.  These businesses are listed by state and city/town.

The business listings include the website for the participating business if they have one. So you can click on the business website and learn more about the participating business.  Senior Citizens age 60 and older present their card at any of the participating businesses at time of purchase to receive their discount. The Seniors receive these discounts without the hassle of clipping or managing coupons.

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Internet could help isolated seniors out of their loneliness

Research by a UK think tank called The Policy Exchange shows that about four in 10 people in the UK aged 65 and over don’t have access to the Internet at home, even though they could benefit from it.

The senior citizens are losing out, it's reported, on a means of social interaction at a time of life when contact with others is particularly important.

Policy Exchange says a significant percentage of older people are very lonely and that the World Wide Web could alleviate some of that loneliness. All it would take would be a cool one billion Euro to bring dramatic social and economic benefits. So can the elderly learn to love tech? And do they even want to?

Rosemary Sargentson could be the "silver surfer" poster child Policy Exchange has in mind when it suggests that a significant investment should be made to help pensioners learn how to get online. She's a little older than your average child though. A frail, but elegant lady, she doesn't have time to give her exact age because she's busy learning new skills - getting to, then using, and then possibly even enjoying the Internet.

http://www.dw.de/internet-could-help-isolated-seniors-out-of-their-loneliness/a-17755727

Elderly Ex-Offenders are Finding They are Unwelcome in Nursing Home Care

  By Tamar Auber on July 1, 2014 

Getting out of jail can be a tough transition for anyone. For a growing numbers of seniors leaving prison life in need of nursing care, however, finding a home that can take them in can be a real challenge, if not impossible.

Many nursing homes refuse to take in ex-offenders, either limited by state law or concerned about how housing ex-offenders may appear to other residents and their families. Yet that means when it comes time for the elderly to be released, there is often no place willing to provide the care they need.

“The Department of Corrections had a growing number of inmates who met skilled nursing home level of care criteria and were eligible to be released, but couldn’t be released unless they could get a nursing home to take them,” Mike Lawlor, Connecticut’s undersecretary for criminal justice policy and planning said. “It was extremely difficult. Most are for-profit and are reluctant to take someone coming directly out of [prison] because they’re worried about how it would impact business.

http://latest.com/2014/07/no-place-to-call-home-elderly-ex-offenders-are-finding-they-are-unwelcome-in-nursing-home-care/

Hepatitis C: Older Americans are at risk

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Ron Pollack

Posted: Tuesday, July 1, 2014 7:45 am

By Ron Pollack | Families USA | 0 comments

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Hepatitis C  -- also known as Hep C -- is a disease that is caused by a virus that affects the liver. Even though the disease often doesn’t produce symptoms, it can seriously damage the liver and can be fatal. An estimated 3.2 million Americans have Hepatitis C.

Older people are more likely to have been exposed to Hepatitis C, but many older Americans are not aware that they need to be tested for it. A December 2013 report found that Hepatitis C infections are concentrated in the Baby Boomers generation http://bit.ly/TTsXih

In one major study of people with the virus, 75 percent of the patients were born between 1945 and 1964.

http://www.hngnews.com/sun_prairie_star/opinion/columns/article_a11a15ea-f631-11e3-82eb-001a4bcf6878.html