"Assuring our elders are treated with care, dignity and the utmost respect during their final years when they can no longer take care of themselves."

LATEST NEWS

FATE provides information, counseling, advice, resources and referrals to those who need assistance in dealing with care of the elderly.

One source of information are our news updates.  Click on the entries below to read the stories (You will need Acrobat Reader™ to view and print these files):

• Family members, county face off over woman's best interests
  
• State of California issues a Class AA Citation with a $100,000 assessed penalty to Lincoln Meadows Care Center on the death of a patient
  
  
• Sacramento jury slams assisted living firm with $23 million in punitive damages
  
  
• Giant assisted-living company found guilty in wrongful death suit
  
• Head of Council on Aging of Florida Arrested
  
  
• China requiring people to visit their aged parents
  
  
• California attorney general's office to ramp up elder-abuse investigations
  
  
• Court Imposes Corporate Liability on Nursing Homes
  
  
• Nursing home residents, not owners, need advocate - The Hill - covering Congress, Politics, Political Campaigns and Capitol Hill | TheHill.com
  
  
• Nursing Homes not paying fines in California. Click here to watch Carole Herman talk about fines against nursing homes not being paid
  
• Santa Clara County lacks rules to rein in fees of court-appointed conservators
  
  
• State Fines 13 Hospitals $825K for Patient Safety, Care Violations
  
• INFLUENCE GAME: Nursing home group’s $175,000 in donations boosts Hatch re-election prospects.
  
  
• Overmedication of the Elderly is a National Disgrace by Carole Herman
  
  
• Nurse faces felony charges in death of Cameron Park man's wife
  
  
• Antipsychotic drugs dangerous for Nursing Home residents Harvard Study
  
  
• Helping your parents stay out of the nursing home
  
  
• Elder Care Headlines from CA, FL and KY
  
  
• Millions now manage aging parents' care from afar
  
  
• Gone Without a Case: Suspicious Elder Deaths Rarely Investigated
  
  
• Nursing Home Ombudsman's Lawsuit Expanded
  
  
• Woman's death raises questions about nursing home medical records
  
  
• Falsified patient records are untold story of California nursing home care
  
  
• Records released in state licensing bribery investigation
  
  
• Federal Report Cites State's Wrongdoing in Nursing-Home Ombudsman Program
  
  
• Health facility targeted in lawsuit
  
  
• Records released in state licensing bribery investigation
  
  
• SAN BERNARDINO: $80,000 fine in patient's death at nursing home
  

• Pursuit of Profit Leads To Increase in Infections in Nursing Home Residents

• Report finds criminals able to offer in-home care for elderly

• Use of chemical restraints in nursing homes called an epidemic

• North Bergen, NJ woman arrested in nursing home abuse case

• Jury orders health care facilities to pay $9 million in wrongful death suit

• Study Finds Criminal Pasts of Nursing Home Workers

• Questions Raised Over Antipsychotic Usage On Elderly

• California Nursing Home Closed After Abuse Caught on “Grannycam”

• Roseville PD: Nurse arrested in theft of medications

• I-Team Investigates Chemical Restraint Of Elderly

• Widower Blames Nursing Home For Wife's Death

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