This day, June 15th, provides an opportunity to raise awareness of the abuse, neglect, and fraud schemes committed against older Americans.
Elder abuse comes in many forms. You took away our flip-phones and made us carry smart phones. After 65 we have to go to the DMV for an eye test and can no longer renew our driver’s licenses by mail and the few pennies we save on Denny’s Early Bird Specials is eaten up in the rising cost of Metamucil!
And regarding nursing homes or managed care facilities, I refer you to a quote the 1970 documentary, considered today to be the seminal work on preventing elder abuse; the 1970 film directed by Carl Reiner “Where’s Poppa?”
“You can lock her in her room, seal her in a tomb,
but never put your mother in a home!”