Category: Elder Abuse California

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER A new California Bill aims to provide respectful care for LBGT senior citizens.  Assembly Bill 663 passed the legislature with a vote of 26-11.  The bill was authored by Assembly member Jimmy Gomez and was sponsored by Equality California.  San Francisco elder abuse attorneys say that this bill […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Last month a Castro Valley assisted living facility was shut down by California Social Services.  What happened after the shutdown is cause for alarm.  According to news reports, patients were abandoned by caregivers after the temporary shutdown order.  Two days after the facility was shut down, paramedics responded […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Another case involving financial elder abuse is in the news in California.  This case was written up in an article in the California Bar Journal in October 2013.  The defendant in the case is a San Francisco attorney who befriended a 77 year old doctor from Maryland.  Then […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER According to the State Bar of California, one in seven senior citizens across the nation become victims of elder abuse.  Sadly, the abuse is usually perpetrated by a family member.  There are two major categories of elder abuse, physical elder abuse and financial elder abuse.  It doesn’t matter […]

In California, elder abuse lawyers are reporting a disturbing trend—an alarmingly high number of financial and physical abuse cases against older people are going unresolved. California’s Department of Public Health has a myriad of laws in place to ensure that health care workers such as live-in caretakers and assisted living […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER The owner of an elder care facility in Sacramento has been charged with elder abuse and involuntary manslaughter.  The charges stem from the death of a resident at the Super Home Care facility.  The elderly victim in this case was hospitalized in June of 2012 with gaping bedsores.  […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER In California, and many other states across the nation, nearly anyone can become a private caregiver.  Napa County is doing its best to ensure that criminals are not able to become caregivers. Napa is the only California county to require home care providers to apply for and carry […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER California is anticipated to pass three new bills that would strengthen elder abuse laws in the state.   Among other things, the definition of undue influence would be updated as it relates to financial elder abuse.  Notary Publics are now required to report suspected financial elder abuse when they […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER A Wells Fargo financial professional recently helped to save a client from losing money in a scam targeting senior citizens.  The 78-year old client thought that he won an overseas lottery.  Instead, he became a victim of financial elder abuse via a typical lottery scam.  The Wells Fargo […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Sweepstakes scams continue to rack up victims, despite warnings to the public.  Often, senior citizens are the target of these types of scams.  Thus, sweepstakes scams are a form of financial elder abuse.  In a typical sweepstakes scam, a fraudster contacts an elderly victim and informs them that […]