Tag: dementia

Dementia ‘fight club’: Assisted-living facility workers encourage patients to fight while recording it, police say

Elderly Abuse

Three former employees of a North Carolina assisted living facility have been arrested and charged with abusing patients with dementia, including encouraging them to fight and filming the encounters, the Winston-Salem Journal reported. Taneshia Deshawn Jordan, 26, was arrested on October 2; Tonacia Yvonne Tyson, 20, was arrested on October 3; and Marilyn Latish McKey, …

Nichelle Nichols: Disturbing video catches ‘Star Trek’ star hysterically screaming at son

Celebrity Justice

June 3, 2019

Nichelle Nichols: Disturbing video catches ‘Star Trek’ star hysterically screaming at son

Nicols’ son got conservatorship over the 86-year-old actress shortly after she was diagnosed with dementia

Doctor borrows $300k from patient—then diagnoses her with dementia when she asks to be paid back: Report

Bad Doctors

October 24, 2018

Doctor borrows $300k from patient—then diagnoses her with dementia when she asks to be paid back: Report

A doctor in Tennessee has retired her medical license amid allegations that she borrowed $300,000 from a female patient then diagnosed her with dementia when she requested repayment. According to the Tennessean, Dr. Suellen Lee, 79, retired her license last month as the Tennessee Board of Medical Examiners dealt with her case. Government attorneys accused …

Assisted-living facility fined after resident with dementia wanders outside, freezes to death

Elderly Abuse

February 6, 2018

Assisted-living facility fined after resident with dementia wanders outside, freezes to death

The state of Wisconsin has fined a Sun Prairie assisted-living facility after an elderly resident with dementia was found frozen to death outside last year. WISC reported that Faith Gardens was fined $4,200 and was ordered to not accept any new residents after Alice L. McGaw, 84, was found dead behind a nearby business on …

Caregiver allegedly tries to smother elderly dementia patient with a pillow, claims he was ‘just messing around’

Crime at Work

October 24, 2017

Caregiver allegedly tries to smother elderly dementia patient with a pillow, claims he was ‘just messing around’

An Oregon man training to become a certified nursing assistant is accused of trying to smother an elderly dementia patient with a pillow. KOIN reported that Henry Woolner, 21, worked at the Gracelen Terrace Long Term Care Facility in Portland. It was there where he abused a 67-year-old patient “who is not able to speak or articulate …

UPDATE: Elderly woman who wandered off from Georgia assisted living facility FOUND SAFE

Missing

September 19, 2017

UPDATE: Elderly woman who wandered off from Georgia assisted living facility FOUND SAFE

Update: Norcross police have located Carmela Bravo Cutler safe at a nearby hotel. “She did not appear lost or confused,” Norcross police Sergeant Eric Butynski told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Cutler didn’t like the facility and decided to leave, according to police. Sergeant Butynski said she was taken back to the facility but is allowed to return to the hotel …