Aged care worker deported after stealing and using stroke patient’s credit card.
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Health & Disability Commissioner releases report on elderly woman mistreated in a Care Home run by CHT Healthcare Trust.
NB: BewareCare NZ has a number of other elderly consumer care stories on file, and the agencies in each one will be similarly publicized.
BewareCare NZ featured in “Beacon” Magazine in Auckland.
BewareCare NZ Press Release 26/10/20.
Financial elder grooming and abuse set to increase if Euthanasia Bill passed, says NZ Aged Care Founder.
Key quote in the article:
“I have seen elder abuse up close,” he says, “and I know there are people out there who would move heaven and earth to end the life of a person if it meant they could get their hands on the money. I have seen and heard of some terrible experiences”.
Community Social Worker writes false care assessment, rents a property, moves their client into the property, and charges them rent!
What does “Elderly Financial Grooming and Abuse” look like? An Estate Lawyer explains the Common Types of Financial Abuse by Caregivers.
A British Columbia nurse was fined by the College of registered nurses in the amount of $17,500, plus ordered to pay investigation costs of $16,500 for financial abuse of an elderly couple, now deceased.
The nurses misdeeds included being the couple’s power of attorney, putting her name on title to their mobile home, paying for her dentistry, vision care and $1600 a month medications, all on top of her monthly salary.
The nurses college rather understatedly reported that she “failed to maintain appropriate boundaries in her seeking of substantial financial benefits from an informed client.”
Community Care Worker jailed for 6 years for fraudently obtaining $300,000 from elderly client she was employed to care for.
A care worker who preyed on two vulnerable pensioners and stole at least £300,000 from them has been jailed for six years.
Agency-employed Community Support Worker jailed for stealing $16k from elderly men she was caring for.
A support worker who was supposed to protect the interests of two vulnerable men instead plundered their bank accounts – and spent their money on pet insurance, “dance equipment”, takeaway food and her weekly shopping.
https://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/news/hull-east-yorkshire-news/hull-claire-ostler-jailed-asda-3254772
Community Support Worker jailed for stealing $6k from elderly pensioner.
A support worker has been jailed for stealing more than £6,000 from a pensioner she was looking after.
