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No pictures for this yet, but after conquering nursing homes, schools and hospitals, Japan’s robots are finally ready to get into office spaces, tooNo pictures for this yet, but after conquering nursing homes, schools and hospitals,... more
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On January 14th, 2009, the Motion Picture & Television Fund (MPTF), a 501(c)(3) charity whose motto is “Taking Care of Our Own,” took 100 elderly and infirm residents, their families and the entire Hollywood community by surprise when it announced the closure of their long-term care facility, also known as a nursing home.
This historic and vital facility has cared for many of Hollywood's greats, including Bud Abbott, Stanley Kramer, Larry Fine, Hattie McDaniel and many, many more. But now, the current generation of Hollywood heavyweights, such as Jeffrey Katzenberg, Frank Mancuso, Casey Wasserman and Hawk Koch, among others, have decided unilaterally to abandon this charity's stated mission to "take care of our own" and are evicting these seniors, subjecting them to deadly transfer trauma.
Many of the residents of this historic Home -- writers, directors, actors and craftspeople -- signed over their lives’ savings and assets with the promise that this Home would be where they lived out their remaining days, surrounded by the community of their peers.
Instead, they’re being subjected to the emotional and physical trauma of forced relocation. Melody Sherwood’s mother, Kay Meyer, 94, “is in a panic believing she’s going to be thrown out and can’t go back to her room because she personally owes 10 million dollars.” Continues Sherwood, “She always believed that this was going to be her Home for life.”
Please sign our petition at www.tinyurl.com/mptfhome and join us on Facebook and at our website www.savingthelivesofourown.org. Every day that passes puts another elderly life in jeopardy.On January 14th, 2009, the Motion Picture & Television Fund (MPTF), a 501(c)(3)... more
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Tuesday is her 104th birthday, but that hasn't stopped Britain's Ivy Bean from being an avid Twitter user and possibly the oldest person on the social networking site.Tuesday is her 104th birthday, but that hasn't stopped Britain's Ivy Bean... more
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Patricia Kobylak was involuntarily committed to a psychiatric hospital on August 4th, 2008. Although she has never committed any crimes or put herself or anyone else in danger; the State of New York continues to keep her confined.
Full length Documentary coming soont to Policeabuse.comPatricia Kobylak was involuntarily committed to a psychiatric hospital on August 4th,... more
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Seven people were killed and eighteen reported missing after a nursing home in Russia caught fire. The current death toll is not expected to be final. This fire comes in the midst of reports that Russia has a high number of fires at hospitals, schools, and other institutions.Seven people were killed and eighteen reported missing after a nursing home in Russia... more
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Charles Todd Lee spent a lifetime going backstage at concerts, following politicians on the campaign trail and capturing iconic shots of everyone from Martin Luther King Jr. to Mick Jagger to Mickey Mantle. Today, he enjoys such freedom only in his dreams.
The 67-year-old photographer has been confined to a nursing home for five years, the victim of a stroke that paralyzed his left side. And he's angry.
Most of the people come here to die, so you want to die," he said. "It is a prison. I can't escape it."
Lee is among the Medicaid recipients across Florida challenging the nightmare of the old and disabled: to be forced from comfort and familiarity into a nursing home.
They say the state is illegally forcing them to live in nursing homes when they should be able to live where they choose. Advocates charge that nursing homes, afraid of losing money, have successfully pressured politicians to make qualifying for community care more difficult. They have filed a federal lawsuit seeking class-action status on behalf of nearly 8,500 institutionalized Floridians.
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http://news.aol.com/health/article/for-some-nursing-homes-are-a-prison/181916?icid=100214839x1209800622x1200593650Charles Todd Lee spent a lifetime going backstage at concerts, following politicians... more
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"Bruce Wasserstein: Gouging Grandma", follows Robin Berson, the daughter of an Atria resident, and Dino Vallenes, a maintenance worker at an Atria facility, as they travel to Bermuda to speak out at Lazard's annual shareholder meeting.
They are speaking out about the abuses in Atria facilities."Bruce Wasserstein: Gouging Grandma", follows Robin Berson, the daughter of... more
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Access inspection information for more than 3,000 daycares, long-term care facilities, group homes and other facilities. There are many horror stories out there with thousands of serious incidences involving those most vulnerable in society; the aged, children and the handicapped.Access inspection information for more than 3,000 daycares, long-term care facilities,... more
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Cops were called to a shamed nursing home when boozed-up pensioners went on a vodka-fuelled rampage.
Four OAPs ran wild at Burnfoot Coach House, near Dumfries, after a boozy session downing bottles of vodka. And one of them caused alarm by offering free sex to other care home residents.Cops were called to a shamed nursing home when boozed-up pensioners went on a... more
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