Older adults are unlikely to recover from significant financial losses due to fraudsters finding ways to get around existing laws. We must provide them with more tools to protect their financial stability. In earlier decades, fraud schemes by snail mail…
Any action or failure to act that causes unreasonable suffering, misery, or harm to the patient is considered nursing home abuse or neglect. It can include assault of a patient, but can also include withholding necessary food, medical attention, or…
President Trump signed into law the Elder Abuse Prevention and Prosecution Act in October of 2017. This bill was designed to combat the growing epidemic of the elderly being taken advantage of financially and abused physically. A study conducted by…