Category: Elder Abuse in California

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 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 […]

Elder abuse lawyers in San Francisco report that acts of serious physical, sexual, and verbal abuse are rampant in nursing homes across the country. A recently released study prepared by the Special Investigations Division of the House Government Reform Committee indicates that more than 5,000 institutions—one-third of all nursing homes […]

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 […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER A California duo allegedly committed financial elder abuse by swindling an elderly mentally ill woman out of thousands of dollars.  The defendants are a couple who reside in Riverside County.  They allegedly befriended the elderly mentally ill woman and talked her into giving them money and goods.  California […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER You don’t expect the manager of a major bank to walk off with hundreds of thousands of dollars of your money, yet this appears to be a crime perpetrated with increasing regularity against elders in California. Oakland banker Linda Sue Foss was recently charged by the Alameda County […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Physical elder abuse – A Millbrae caregiver will stand trial on assault and physical elder abuse charges.  The caregiver has been accused of beating an elderly Millbrae man on the head and causing serious injuries.  It is alleged that the caregiver hit the elderly man on the head […]

Planning for your own death is never easy. And with all the life insurance options available, choosing the right plan for you and your loved ones can be tricky. Insurance companies offer options to invest in inheritance for their children; savings plan for their funeral costs and other expenses, such […]