Salem-News.com News Feed for articles tagged with seniors www.salem-news.com 2013 How did a professional editor get to enter a second career and turn to social work? It's an ideal question to ask, and to answer, during March which happens to be National Social Work Month. Here I shall unfold my personal story for all to explore. http://salem-news.com/articles/march282013/senior-relations-blc.php http://salem-news.com/articles/march282013/senior-relations-blc.php Thu, 28 Mar 2013 13:42:00 PDT The term "disconnect" does not seem to be in the vocabulary of those who author contracts for the cellphone firms that pretty much control the communications channels of America. That lack of capacity to terminate a 2-year ironclad contract for a disabled consumer is nothing short of a travesty. Consumers are given two choices: either stay trapped in that contract or else die off. http://salem-news.com/articles/march212013/senior-phones-blc.php http://salem-news.com/articles/march212013/senior-phones-blc.php Thu, 21 Mar 2013 10:59:00 PDT While I have no say-so on what other people decide to do in their Golden Age years, I've decided that the option of a nursing home environment is not suitable for my personal values. http://salem-news.com/articles/january302013/convalescent-avoidance-blc.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january302013/convalescent-avoidance-blc.php Wed, 30 Jan 2013 01:06:00 PST Recently my wife and I had to escape a horrible heatwave. It wasn't a bit pleasant. As retirees, we were free to take off midweek and headed to Lincoln City and vicinity. http://salem-news.com/articles/august172012/continental-breakfast-blc.php http://salem-news.com/articles/august172012/continental-breakfast-blc.php Fri, 17 Aug 2012 23:48:00 PDT Salem, OR – named #10 city in the U.S. for retired singles looking for love! Accounting for over 76 million people in the U.S., Baby Boomers constitute the nation's fastest growing population. And now, more than ever before, a large portion of this demographic remains single2, with more and more reaching that golden age of retirement each day. http://salem-news.com/articles/july022012/retired-singles_.php http://salem-news.com/articles/july022012/retired-singles_.php Mon, 02 Jul 2012 13:12:00 PDT The elder abuse hotline runs round the clock in Los Angeles County. Twenty four hours a day, a social worker is available to take incoming complaints of abuse and neglect of elderly and dependent adults. But not, apparently, if the abusing party is a conservator. http://salem-news.com/articles/june292012/conservator-abuse-jp.php http://salem-news.com/articles/june292012/conservator-abuse-jp.php Fri, 29 Jun 2012 16:43:00 PDT All of us age by degrees. It is not an overnight process. Nevertheless, we seem conditioned to ignore this life reality and indulge in a game called Manana-itis. We tend to be in denial. http://salem-news.com/articles/june162012/perseverance-plus-blc.php http://salem-news.com/articles/june162012/perseverance-plus-blc.php Sat, 16 Jun 2012 17:50:00 PDT The California State Psychology Board has launched an action against a Northern California psychologist and advocate for the disabled, and has ordered the practitioner into a psychiatric evaluation or face revocation of his license. In an unprecedented deviation from the Board's mandate to investigate consumer complaints, http://salem-news.com/articles/may182012/activist-psychologist-jp.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may182012/activist-psychologist-jp.php Fri, 18 May 2012 15:10:00 PDT Today in Riverside Superior Court, Department 8, I attempted to execute a citizen’s arrest of an attorney. Toni Eggebraaten, the attorney for the Family Trust for which I am a beneficiary, filed an accounting in which she attempted to obscure her embezzling thirty thousand dollars. http://salem-news.com/articles/may182012/citizen-arrest-jp.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may182012/citizen-arrest-jp.php Fri, 18 May 2012 00:23:00 PDT Government agencies pledged to provide oversight for those handling the affairs of the most vulnerable. The degree of 'cover' provided those pledged to care for the elderly and infirm could be seen as providing absolute immunity for acts of criminal misconduct. http://salem-news.com/articles/march012012/elder-finances-jp.php http://salem-news.com/articles/march012012/elder-finances-jp.php Thu, 01 Mar 2012 22:40:00 PST The Oregon Senate backed a bill this morning that will make major changes to Oregon law with respect to elder abuse, creating critical new protections for Oregon’s most vulnerable seniors. House Bill 4084 integrates several recommendations from a work group on elder abuse created in 2011... http://salem-news.com/articles/march012012/elder-abuse.php http://salem-news.com/articles/march012012/elder-abuse.php Thu, 01 Mar 2012 22:26:00 PST While in Geneva, Switzerland recently I met with a number of disability rights oriented groups. It was suggested to me at that time that the guardianship victims bundle together our complaints and submit under the United Nations Convention Against Torture. The U.S. has both signed and ratified this international treaty and thus is bound to its conditions. http://salem-news.com/articles/february242012/guardianship-convention-jp.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february242012/guardianship-convention-jp.php Fri, 24 Feb 2012 23:11:00 PST A Senate committee took action this morning on several priority bills that will help Oregonians who continue to struggle in these tough times. http://salem-news.com/articles/february192012/oregon-senate.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february192012/oregon-senate.php Sun, 19 Feb 2012 20:08:00 PST A legal reform activist and journalist, who exposed a money laundering operation wherein home loans were being used to funnel pay offs to California judges, is now being stalked by…..you got it…a judge. After nearly a decade of reporting on corruption in the legal system, journalist Janet Phelan moved to Mexico, where she has continued to write on issues pertaining to courts and justice. http://salem-news.com/articles/february022012/stalking-judge.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february022012/stalking-judge.php Thu, 02 Feb 2012 14:10:00 PST Many proponents of the global cannabis movement believe legendary pitchman and author of The Black Tuna Diaries, Robert Platshorn, holds the key to cannabis legalization in the United States. Platshorn has shown he can sway senior audiences to support medical cannabis. http://salem-news.com/articles/january302012/florida-marijuana-mb.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january302012/florida-marijuana-mb.php Mon, 30 Jan 2012 17:22:00 PST Costs continue to rise for those requiring long-term care in the U.S. According to the newly released 2011 MetLife Market Survey of Nursing Home, Assisted Living, Adult Day Services, and Home Care Costs, conducted by the MetLife Mature Market Institute, national average rates for a private nursing home room increased 4.4% to $239 daily or $87,235 annually, in 2011. Assisted living base rates rose by 5.6% to $3,477 monthly or $41,724 annually. http://salem-news.com/articles/october252011/long-term-care.php http://salem-news.com/articles/october252011/long-term-care.php Tue, 25 Oct 2011 21:40:00 PDT An Oregon mother who allegedly lost more than a million dollars in property and assets to her son in California, says it's hard for a lone elderly woman to find justice in Oregon's legal system. Now Salem-News.com has been called to task for publishing the story. http://salem-news.com/articles/october092011/worst-son-tk.php http://salem-news.com/articles/october092011/worst-son-tk.php Sun, 09 Oct 2011 23:49:00 PDT On 9/22/2011, Senator Amy Klobuchar chaired a Senate Judiciary committee hearing on reforming Guardianship proceedings. We need to act now to show the Judiciary committee that we support this effort, and are not afraid to speak with one clear voice on the issue of legislative reform of abusive practices in guardianship proceedings. Even though we are a diverse group of victims - the net result of the abuse shows a similar pattern - denial of civil rights and devastating financial exploitation. http://salem-news.com/articles/october092011/guardianship_proceedings-mt.php http://salem-news.com/articles/october092011/guardianship_proceedings-mt.php Sun, 09 Oct 2011 22:41:00 PDT On July 26th, also known as the patron day celebration of Saint Joaquin and Saint Anne, is Grandparent’s Day. http://salem-news.com/articles/september122011/grandparents-today-cf.php http://salem-news.com/articles/september122011/grandparents-today-cf.php Mon, 12 Sep 2011 10:51:00 PDT After 33 years as a professional counselor on both East and West Coasts, I have seen literally hundreds of elderly clients sharing their agonies. One pervasive issue keeps cropping up. It involves the return of the male breadwinner to the homefront, for which he is often unprepared. Thus, conflict erupts. http://salem-news.com/articles/september062011/elder-naggers-blc.php http://salem-news.com/articles/september062011/elder-naggers-blc.php Tue, 06 Sep 2011 17:23:00 PDT The Senate passed a bill this morning that specifies that services provided through the state’s Oregon Project Independence (OPI) program. HB 3037 clarifies that eligible seniors in the program can receive in-home and community-based home care, health promotion services, information on immediate and long range options counseling, and transportation services through OPI. http://salem-news.com/articles/may162011/senate-bill.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may162011/senate-bill.php Mon, 16 May 2011 18:14:00 PDT Where does one turn when you become disabled, vulnerable or old and become unlawfully a victim of the system? There are no kind words for the injustice that Chemung County New York has visited upon my husband, Gary Harvey and me. My husband a veteran who served his country and fought for our freedom is being denied his. http://salem-news.com/articles/may122011/gary-harvey-sh.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may122011/gary-harvey-sh.php Thu, 12 May 2011 00:13:00 PDT They say the disabled and elderly are being preyed upon by the legal system, by crooked lawyers and courts who scam millions of dollars by having older people declared Guardians of the courts depriving them and their families of their rights and taking their assets. Protesting in front of the Justice Department, they met with a few members of Congress demanding something be done. http://salem-news.com/articles/may122011/elder-abuse-mk.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may122011/elder-abuse-mk.php Thu, 12 May 2011 00:12:00 PDT Lawrence Yetzer was standing in his front yard, yelling. The fifty-two year old Rialto man, who was blind and suffered from cerebral palsy, had just discovered his father lying unmoving on the front room floor. http://salem-news.com/articles/april202011/inheriting-misfortune-jp.php http://salem-news.com/articles/april202011/inheriting-misfortune-jp.php Wed, 20 Apr 2011 06:03:00 PDT In an unparalleled action in an ex parte hearing on the first of April, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Reva Goetz issued a Restraining Order against a local physician. http://salem-news.com/articles/april152011/tanaka-court-jp.php http://salem-news.com/articles/april152011/tanaka-court-jp.php Fri, 15 Apr 2011 15:52:00 PDT In a startling reversal of an established transparency policy, the Los Angeles Police Department has refused a recent routine records request, citing a 1993 court case, County of Los Angeles v. Superior Court (Kusar). The Kusar case affirmed the public's right to view contemporaneous records and the LAPD has cited this case in its refusal to release a record which is only nine months old. http://salem-news.com/articles/march232011/lapd-oversight-jp.php http://salem-news.com/articles/march232011/lapd-oversight-jp.php Wed, 23 Mar 2011 12:24:00 PDT There are not too many Americans who can remember the Crash of 1929. I do, I was 6-years old at the time and selling newspapers in a logging and sawmill town; Klamath Falls, Oregon's bustling 'red light district' (pun) which up to that time was producing lumber like crazy to supply the post WWI building boom. http://salem-news.com/articles/january142011/baby-boom-pl.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january142011/baby-boom-pl.php Fri, 14 Jan 2011 01:44:00 PST Investigative journalist, Janet Phelan has hit a deep nerve in the Judicial-Industrial brainstem: What she has uncovered is the Perfect Crime as well as the only legal, airtight bag in which to silence whistleblowers. Thanks to dubious accidental loopholes in the legal code, it is possible to strip an individual of the right to fight a well as the resources necessary to defend oneself. http://salem-news.com/articles/december292010/janet-phelan-kboo.php http://salem-news.com/articles/december292010/janet-phelan-kboo.php Wed, 29 Dec 2010 19:39:00 PST In a hearing in Sacramento Superior Court last Friday, controversial conservator Melodie Scott was granted a license to practice as a professional fiduciary. http://salem-news.com/articles/december252010/life-savings-jp.php http://salem-news.com/articles/december252010/life-savings-jp.php Sat, 25 Dec 2010 11:46:00 PST It's laughter, lively discussions and lots of learning. What is it? It's the Senior Studies Institute at Portland Community College and its turning 20 years old this year. At the Lake Oswego Parks and Recreation District Building and five other locations around Portland, the institute is giving retirees a path to lifelong learning. On a day in early September, about two-dozen senior citizens gathered in one of the old Safeco Insurance Building's classrooms on Kruse Way to chat about current events. In these classes, there's food, social networking, exchange of ideas and plenty of learning. Through offerings like this one, SSI gives attendees a social network and a way to continue their education. http://salem-news.com/articles/november012010/pcc-senior-studies.php http://salem-news.com/articles/november012010/pcc-senior-studies.php Mon, 01 Nov 2010 18:01:00 PDT