Oakland County’s Serving Adults Who are Vulnerable and Elderly (S.A.V.E.) Taskforce invites the public to join them in developing awareness and putting a stop to elder abuse in the community by showing support with a Walk in the Park on Friday, June 13, 2008, at the Riverside Park, 3311 Squirrel Court in Auburn Hills, Michigan.
The S.A.V.E. Taskforce is a cross-sectional representation of the community that has come together to bring an awareness of this topic to the public. Home Instead Senior Care is one of the organizations holding membership on the taskforce.
The program will begin at 10:00 a.m. and will feature S.A.V.E. Taskforce co-founders, Judge Edward Sosnick and Lynn Alexander of Your Aging Well Advisor. Comments will also be made by Bob Dustman, Oakland County Media & Communications Officer, and Peter Auger, Auburn Hills City Manager.
After the opening comments, attendees are invited to take a brief stroll through the park where statistics concerning elder abuse and exploitation will be displayed. Upon completing the walk, a concert in the park will be provided by the City of Auburn Hills.
“S.A.V.E. has continued, since 2005, to draw attention to the serious issue of elder abuse and exploitation. The boomers are aging, and as they do, the numbers who fall prey to scammers and even family abuses will drastically increase,” says Bert Copple of Home Instead Senior Care. “This is just one way that we can raise our voices on behalf of the senior population, and by helping to educate the public about what they can do to stop this kind of elder abuse.”
Copple, who is also running for U.S. Congress in Michigan’s 12th district, says this needs to be an issue that is addressed as well as other senior-related topics during this election. “We’re facing a tsunami of seniors in our country, and in the next decade we’re going to find that we don’t have enough caregivers to provide care, we won’t have enough tax revenue to fund social security and medicaid, and we’re going to be caught between a rock and a hard place when serious issues such as elder abuse and exploitation become more frequent due to new stressors put on our society. We need to do something, and it needs to be talked about during thsi election cycle.” More can be learned about Copple’s campaign by clicking here.
Michigan Home Care Experts 
Elder Abuse comes in obvious forms and not so obvious forms.
We are facing a national epidemic of unlawful and abusive guardianships/conservatorship abuse.
Guardians and their attorneys get rich exploiting the very people they have been court-appointed to protect. And it’s all “legal”.
After the Ward is pauperized by the system, the guardian/attorney tag team moves on to the next victim, leaving Mr. and Mrs. Taxpayer to pick up the Medicaid tab.
How much is the State of MI losing to this lawyer welfare system?
Don’t believe it? Visit the National Association to STOP Guardian Abuse at http://www.StopGuardianAbuse.org and read the victim’s stories.
Also, visit http://www.CorruptionofMichael.com and see how Michael Rowe has been victimized by his court-appointed “protectors”. Your blood will boil!
Yours,
Elaine Renoire
NASGA
By: Elaine Renoire on June 6, 2008
at 10:56 pm
We, at SavingOurParents.com would like to commend all of you for supporting World Elder Abuse Awareness Day on June 15, 2008. We wish you all the best on your walk on June 13.
I am thrilled to be able to share with you additional solutions from our “just released” DVD entitled, Saving our Parents. This DVD is being used as a training video for hospitals, groups and government agencies throughout the world and won the 2007 Silver National Mature Media Award in its category of best in educational materials for older adults.
Hosted and narrated by Ed Asner (Mary Tyler Moore Show), and featuring LAPD Police Chief William Bratton and Los Angeles Director of Public Health, Dr. Jonathan Fielding, “Saving Our Parents” is a MUST SEE documentary that will help protect and educate our public servants, older adults and their adult children about safe and healthy aging.
“One elderly person is victimized every 2.7 minutes.”
We would be honored if your organization would consider purchasing 10 or more DVD’s for your viewing and training. In doing so, you will be assisting in our mission to:
Prevent a million elders from becoming victimized
Raise $1 million to find a cure for Alzheimer’s – a portion of the sales proceeds will be donated to The John Douglas French Alzheimer’s Foundation
Inspire & empower one million families to care for their loved ones in their golden years
Please take a moment to visit our website: http://www.savingourparents.com to view clips of our DVD and learn about discounted rates for bulk orders. An order sheet is also attached for your convenience.
With gratitude for all you do,
Dorothy Breininger, Producer, Saving our Parents, and
President, Delphi Center for Organization, Inc.
Debby Bitticks, Producer, Saving our Parents, and
CEO, Delphi Health Products, Inc.
http://www.SavingOurParents.com
By: Dorothy Breininger on June 7, 2008
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Here’s another aspect:
With continued cuts in government spending for Medicaid, Social Security etc., the future is not looking so bright for the elderly. It has already become more and more difficult for this population to access any kind of supportive services. Furthermore, it has become increasingly difficult for government-mandated agencies to fulfill their duty to provide, not only the safest but, the least restrictive environment for their elderly clients.
In Ohio, when an individual has reached the point that they are unable to take care of themselves, it is the duty of the Adult Protective Services worker to intervene and apply for guardianship for those who have no family and for those cases where there has been no estate-appointed fiduciary.
Sound like a simple plan? Maybe, except for the fact that there are no volunteers to be guardians for these individuals and no funding to pay someone to take on this difficult task. Even when you are able to find a few good-hearted souls willing to take responsibility for the life of someone they have never met; then you need to have the gall to ask them if they are willing to pay the $250.00 application fee. Even family members who are willing to apply for guardianship for a loved one, are often deterred by the expense that can be involved in the process.
Although many of us are thankful for the increase in life expectancy possible for people of our century, there is also the possibility of living to an age where we may experience some degree of disability. Not just a physical or mental disability, but some disabling event that may cause us to lose the very things that we struggle our whole lives to maintain.
It is heartbreaking to hear the stories about the elderly woman heating her home with her oven after her furnace breaks because she can’t afford to have it fixed; or the elderly gentleman forced to leave his home because he can’t afford to fix his leaking roof. Where is our compassion and sense of duty? These are our parents, our grandparents, but most of all, human beings in need of a little help.
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By: acjfs on June 10, 2008
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