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Author:  Staff Editors.


Source: Volume 18, Number 06, March/April 2016 , pp.81-87(7)




Victimization of the Elderly and Disabled

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Abstract: 

This edition of Updates and Short Takes reviews the current state of the Casey Kasem complaint, employees of nursing homes and assisted living facilities posting photographs or videos of residents on social media, increasing awareness of the dangers that antipsychotic drugs pose to the elderly and the very young, two dozen men with intellectual disabilities will share in a $600k ruling after working for years for little pay in an Iowa turkey processing plant under terrible work and living conditions, findings from an investigation of elder abuse in indigenous populations, a CA criminal neglect case, Los Angeles benefits from multidisciplinary team approach in fighting elder abuse, nursing home arbitration agreements.

Keywords: elder abuse damages; HIPAA violation; Snapchat; Risperdal; Prozac; Adderall; Native Americans; TREA website; Extendicare settlement with DOJ; NCEA Home For the Holidays Handout; Diversicare Leasing Corp. v. Hubbard

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