Elder Issues

Today’s Take: Don’t Mess With Elders

It is an unfortunate reality that as people get older, they become more and more susceptible to influence, abuse, and neglect. In fact, California has recognized that its elders are a disadvantaged class, that the cases of...more

Fractured Hip Injuries in Slip and Fall Accidents: Why the Elderly are at Risk

There are many injuries that can occur in a slip and fall accident. One of the most feared and serious of these injuries is a fractured hip. Unfortunately, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention a broken...more

Structured Thoughts -- Volume 4, Issue 8 -- May 15, 2013

In This Issue: Due Diligence Procedures for Structured Note Distributors; Key Issues for Yankee CDs; The SEC and FINRA: Protect Your Elders; The FSOC’s 2013 Annual Report: Increasing Exchange-Traded Product Activity;...more

Ventas' Debra Cafaro on why the Health Care asset class is well positioned in today's economy [Video]

John Corey, Founding Partner of Greentarget, interviews Debra Cafaro, Chairman and CEO of Ventas, on why the Health Care asset class is well positioned in today's economy. ...more

Study Shows Medication Danger To Elderly — Especially In The South

Americans over age 65 take an average of four prescription medications. While the interaction of prescription medications raises the risk of injury, a new study suggests that fully 20 percent of people with Medicare Advantage...more

If My Husband Goes Into A Nursing Home, Will I Lose My House?

If it becomes necessary for your spouse to enter a nursing home for his or her long term care, the unknowns can be overwhelming. There may be many people ready to tell you what they have “heard” about Medicaid, such as,...more

Signs of Nursing Home Abuse

Nursing home abuse or neglect can be difficult to detect. And while you may have suspicions, you may not know how to go about raising the issue with the staff. Being active and engaged is essential to safeguarding the safety...more

How To Spot Nursing Home Abuse

The decision to place a loved one in the care of a nursing home is a serious one. It is often the best possible solution for an elderly person and his or her family. Unfortunately, the decision is a difficult one with elder...more

National Population Of Elderly Drivers On The Rise

A lot of emphasis is placed on instilling safe driving habits in the teens of Alabama. This is not without good intentions because motor vehicle accidents remain the leading cause of death for teens in the state. However, in...more

Infobytes - A Weekly In-depth review of news & developments in the financial services industry - April 19, 2013

In This Issue: - FEDERAL ISSUES - STATE ISSUES - COURTS - FIRM NEWS - FIRM PUBLICATIONS - MORTGAGES - BANKING - CONSUMER FINANCE - SECURITIES - CREDIT CARDS - Excerpt from Consumer...more

Georgia Nursing Homes And A Personal Injury Lawsuit

About 1.5 million elderly and disabled people live in roughly 17,000 nursing homes in the United States. In September 2012, the National Center on Elder Abuse, Bureau of Justice Statistics reported that...more

CMS To Post Additional Nursing Home Deficiency Data Online

On March 22, 2013, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”) announced that it would increase the amount of information available online by posting a nursing home’s three (3) preceding standard health surveys and...more

Signing Arbitration Contracts on Admission to a Nursing Home – Who Is Bound?

As our population ages, more and more people are being admitted to nursing homes at or near the end of their lives. But when a person is admitted to a nursing home and they sign a contract agreeing to arbitrate any disputes...more

Vulnerable Adults: Dangerous Bed Rails

Earlier we discussed forms of elder abuse. Another form of elder abuse is the dangerous conditions maintained by some caregivers who neglect their responsibilities for keeping seniors and disabled individuals safe. In recent...more

New Jersey Estate Litigation: The Availability of Punitive Damages

In In re Stockdale, the New Jersey Supreme Court addressed the availability of punitive damages in estate disputes involving undue influence claims. 196 N.J. 275 (2008). ...more

Sequester Cuts Hurting Seniors

Will the ridiculous gridlock in Washington that has a sledgehammer instead of scalpel being used to address the cancer of a bloated budget affect your world immediately? As a working adult or family, likely not, For...more

Unjustified Restraint: An Insidious Form of Nursing Home Abuse

Although there is widespread agreement that the victimization of seniors is contemptible behavior, reports of severe nursing home abuse and neglect are common both in California and throughout the country. Nursing home abuse...more

Dismissal of “Mushroom” Caregiver

A caregiver who was accused of serving poisonous mushrooms to patients, leading to several deaths, has been barred from working in elderly care facilities in the future. John Demas discusses the implications of this decision...more

$2M Award in Pro Wrestler’s Death Exposes Nursing Home Abuse

A $2 million jury award for the death of a former pro wrestler highlights the abuse and neglect of elderly patients in understaffed nursing homes. George Dahmer, known to fans as Chief White Owl during his 30-year career...more

Seniors More Likely to Face Foreclosure

While the mortgage crisis seems to have fallen out of the news, seniors in particular are still reeling from its effects. Caught in a cycle of decreasing income but increasing expenses, seniors have proven especially...more

Aging in Place Drives mHealth Technologies

A lot of the momentum around the mobile health (or mHealth) market is tied to the growing interest in products that enable the elderly to age in place. A key to allowing people to stay in their homes as they age is the...more

Carter v. Prime Healthcare Paradise Valley LLC

New Case Law or Business as Usual?--Understanding the Effects of Carter v. Prime Healthcare Paradise Valley LLC

On August 12, 2011, the Fourth Appellate Court of Appeals of California decided Carter v. Prime Healthcare Paradise Valley LLC and affirmed a San Diego Trial Court's ruling sustaining the defendant hospital's Demurrer to...more

Food Safety

An 85-year-old woman died following a norovirus outbreak in a nursing home. The woman's death comes shortly after the deaths of 10 other nursing home residents related to gastroenteritis outbreaks ...more