Increased dependency due to illness, disability or cognitive impairments can make seniors susceptible to financial abuse.
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Fighting Nursing Home Discrimination Against Medicaid Recipients
While it is illegal for a nursing home to discriminate against a Medicaid recipient, it still happens. To prevent such discrimination, nursing home residents and their families need to know…
Execute a Power of Attorney Before It's Too Late
A durable power of attorney is an extremely important estate planning tool, even more important than a will in many cases. This crucial document allows a person you appoint —…
Nursing Home Residents Win Back Right to Sue ---For Now
In recent years, nursing homes have increasingly asked — or forced — patients and their families to sign arbitration agreements prior to admission. By signing these agreements, patients or family…
Bedsores and Pressure Sores
Bedsores can develop rapidly and be deadly. They are many times difficult to detect.
National Think Tank Begun on Elder Financial Abuse
WASHINGTON, DC – JUNE 15, 2015 – On the 10th anniversary of World Elder Abuse Awareness Day, the National Adult Protective Services Association (NAPSA) is launching the National Institute on Elder…
New Booklet on Protecting Residents from Financial Exploitation --A Manual for Assisted Living and Nursing Home Facilities
New Booklet on Protecting Residents from Financial Exploitation –A Manual for Assisted Living and Nursing Home Facilities
Reports of Elder Abuse Jump in Boulder, CO--Probate Litigation Attorney
According to an article in the Colorado Daily Camera on December 22, 2014, reports of elder abuse have doubled since the new reporting act was enacted in Colorado.
Veterans and Nursing Home Abuse--Colorado Elder Abuse Attorney
With all the reports about the VA mistreating our veterans, I thought I would rerun this blog. I currently have a case involving financial fraud on a Vet by a…
Infections in Nursing Homes, Gangrene--Colorado Elder Abuse Attorney
Poor hygiene in nursing homes is an all too common form of nursing home abuse. Poor hygiene abuse in nursing homes is usually the result of too little staff working…