Archive for ‘gerontology’

2011/11/09

Neglected to Death – Miami Herald on the Shalom Manor Assisted Living Facility

On Sunday, The Miami Herald will publish part one of Neglected to Death, a three-part investigative series that discloses how Florida has failed to safeguard the elderly in assisted-living facilities.

Three former residents of Shalom Manor Retirement Home in Lauderhill describe the conditions at the assisted living facility, one of the homes the state has moved to close since the Miami Herald’s ‘Neglected to Death’ investigation. Chuck Fadely/Miami Herald Staff

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2011/11/01

The Zimmers – My Generation (2007)

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2011/11/01

The Onion: Social Security Scam Robs Elderly By Convincing Them They Are Dead

A new scam preys on the elderly by informing them they have died and instructing them to reroute their social security checks to the “Department of the Dead.”

2011/10/29

Alone in a hospital: a hard-hitting NGO ad

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A 2010 Chilean commercial for Public Awareness NGO Fundacion Las Rosas fighting against the exclusion of the elderly people.
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