Elder & Nursing Abuse Attorneys of Arizona

It’s difficult to say that one type of elder abuse is more abhorrent than another. Yet when elder abuse takes the form of sexual abuse, it somehow seems worse than almost any other form of abuse perpetuated against an elderly person or a dependent adult.

Elder abuse attorney Stephen M. Garcia represented a woman over 100 years old who was repetitively raped by the manager of a long-term care facility in Riverside, Calif.

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As part of the Health Care Reform Bill (often called Obama Care), passed in March 2010, The Elder Justice Act requires long-term care facilities that received at least $10,000 in federal funds the previous year to self-report nursing home elder abuse. More

Long-term care nursing homes would have another avenue to challenge state findings of deficiencies or safety violations under a bill approved unanimously Wednesday by a Senate committee. More>>