THE
G-MAN INTERVIEWS:
JACK HALPERN
Poor
Background Checks,
Absence of Fingerprinting Requirements
Place Millions of the
Nation’s Elderly in
Danger
**
FAIR USE NOTICE**
These Videos May Contain Copyrighted (©)
Material. The Use of Which Has Not
Always Been Specifically Authorized by The
Copyright Owner. Such Material is Made
Available to
Advance Understanding of Ecological, Political,
Human Rights,
Economic, Democracy, Scientific,
Moral, Ethical,
Social Justice Issues, Teaching, and
Research. It is believed that this Constitutes a ''
Fair Use'' of Any Such Copyrighted Material as Provided For in
Section 107 of the
US Copyright Law. In Accordance With
Title - 17
U.S.C. Section 107, This Material is Distributed
Without PROFIT to Those Who Have Expressed a
Prior General Interest in Receiving
Similar Information For Research and Educational Purposes. For More Information:
http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode
Welcome.
The following news reports were also filed in the state of
New York in 2014.
On April 2, the
Bronx division of
News 12 reported that
Maria Milano, who worked as a home health aide, “had been charged with 13 counts of assault, two counts of welfare endangerment, and harassment after allegedly abusing
Isabel Sosa. Sosa, 76, suffers from
Alzheimer's disease and dementia. Sosa told her son,
David, that Milano would repeatedly knee her side, hit her legs, choke her, and left a lump on the back of her head.”
On
September 11, the
New York Daily News reported…. “A 99-year-old
Staten Island man was still living at home, headed toward his
100th birthday — until hired home health aides “killed my father,” the man’s distraught daughter says.
“Disturbing surveillance video captures the horrific abuse inflicted in the months before
Peter Mazza’s death this summer.
“His family members say aides working for the
Nurse Service of New York and
Partners in
Care were hired to provide round-the-clock care for the ailing, elderly man — but instead the aides were negligent and abusive, leaving the man to fend for himself after one April fall that left the man with fractures and head injuries, the suit claims.
“He died in a nursing home weeks later, after deteriorating at a hospital. Mazza never had a chance to return to his
Oakwood home on
Montreal Avenue, where the grandfather to 13 spent
47 years raising his five children.”
Jack Halpern is the
CEO of the New York City-based My
Elder Advocate,
LLC. As its name suggests, the organization provides advocacy services and helps seniors with issues such as eviction prevention, nursing home and hospital crisis intervention, nursing home or assisted living placement and long term care planning. Mr. Halpern joins me to explain why abuse by home health aides has reached a crisis
point in New York, as well as other sections of the country, and what can be done to address the problem.
The interview was conducted at My Elder Advocate, LLC’s office on
March 9, 2015.
Information pertaining to this episode is available through the following links:
My Elder Advocate, LLC.
http://www.myelderadvocate.com/home
New York State Senator Rev. Rubén Díaz
http://www.nysenate.gov/senator/ruben-diaz
New York Times article on
Excellent Home Care and Extended Home Care
http://www.nytimes.com/
2013/06/24/nyregion/reinventing-long-term-care-and-endorsing-firms-accused-of-fraud
.html?_r=0
Village Voice article on
Howard Fensterman and Excellent Home Care
http://failedmessiah.typepad.com/failed_messiahcom/
2010/10/the-hasidic-looting-of-new-yorks-home-health-care-456.html
New York Times article on Visiting Nurse Service-affiliate whose home health aides were charged with murder
http://www.nytimes.com/
2006/01/27/nyregion/27aides.html
Bronx
12 News report
http://bronx.news12.com/news/home-aide-maria-miliano-arrested-for-allegedly-abusing-elderly-woman-1.7587128
New York Daily News report
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/home-health-aides-abused-99-year-old-staten-island-man-suit-article-1.1936705
News video on two separate murders committed by home health aides
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWfLZrXtAIE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgrKfUR0Tjs
- published: 17 Mar 2015
- views: 4630