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ADULT GUARDIANSHIP & TRUSTEESHIP ACT -Instrument of Protection or Instrument of Abuse
The Elder Advocates of Alberta Society were present in the Alberta Legislature, November 24/19, in order to again make a strong objection to the unjust, legislation that disregards citizenship rights and violates the Charter of Rights and Freedoms Under this legislation, you are no longer safe in your own domicile. […]
SENIORS ARE BEING TARGETED
Seniors are being targeted by those who wish to seize their money and estates. Personal Directives, Powers of Attorney and competency assessments, are designed tools used to accomplish this. Each in a moment, can strip a senior of all rights, legal rights, citizenship rights, access to their money. Frontline offenders are the Office of the […]
ELDER ABUSE BY PROFESSIONAL MANAGEMENT
According to Alberta Health 2005, for the 14,000 residents in care facilities, there are 3,400 professionals and 9,500 aides. Ratios vary from region to region. This means 1 professional for 2.79 aides.
ADULT GUARDIANSHIP & TRUSTEESHIP ACT
facilitates theft. Seniors who have been stripped of their rights under the Adult Guardianship & Trusteeship Act are not privy to their bank account statements. This allows Trustees & Power of Attorney Agents to steal the senior’s money with impunity. This is happening.
DRIVER TEST CENTERS’ FAIL RATES VARY WIDELY
About half of the drivers who take their road tests in busy Brampton fail. In sleepy Kenora, the failure rate is lower than 20 per cent. As Ontario’s driving instructors have long known, some examination centres fail a far higher percentage of test-takers than others. Now the company that runs driver testing for the province has […]
DAVID CHEN, TORONTO GROCER, CHARGED WITH ASSAULT: JUSTICE GONE WILD
David Chen who made a citizen’s arrest of a known thief was charged with assault & forcible confinement & had to defend himself in court. Chen, a 37-year-old father-of-two who works nearly 20 hours a day making $35,000 a year, has been on trial for chasing down career thief Anthony Bennett in May of 2009. Two of Chen’s employees also faced criminal charges […]
IHOR BRODA
Fall of 2006, the Law Society of Alberta did not suspend Mr.Broda however, placed a half million dollar mortgage on his property, # 072048 1785 signed on November 2, 2006.
Alberta long term care fees hiked 3%
The Honourable Ms. Jablonski has announced another long term care fee. Is the fee hike justified? Perhaps those in care should be asked. What is the quality of the food? Does a weiner and half a bun constitute a meal? A small, slim lady housed with alzheimer patients, continually tells us that she is hungry. […]
HUMAN RIGHTS CASUALTIES
HELEN T. In October 2008, Central placement placed Helen T. in a locked alzheimer ward. She was detained like a maximum security prisoner for 8 months, never allowed to leave not even for a cup of  coffee.   April 2009 & June 2009, reassessments were made & it was determined that she had been very wrongly placed.  However, she was not moved to […]
Myrtle Hofer: Senior apprehended by Public Guardian
On June 16, 2010, Ms.Tobi-Dawn McRae, Public Guardian Officer, Lethbridge made an ex parte Application to the court for the apprehension of Mrs. Hofer…
LONG TERM CARE BEDS
On any given day in Alberta, more than 700 people are living in an active treatment hospital bed while they wait for a long-term care bed: A hospital bed that costs the public health care system $30,000 a month.
Assisted living facilities have high vacancy rate.
A Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corporation report released earlier this week shows the vacancy rate for assisted-living facilities where seniors get less than 1.5 hours of care each day — has skyrocketed in Alberta, to 12.2 per cent in 2009 from 5.9 per cent in 2009. During the same period, the vacancy rate for care […]
MENTALLY HANDICAPPED EXTENDED NO PROTECTION
Betty Anne Gagnon, 48, was blind and mentally handicapped. She died alone under horrific, unthinkable circumstances. Marilyn Lane, 42, who from childhood suffered from Downs Syndrome, burned to death in an unlicensed, unmonitored Capilano group home. Both, were not under the protection of the Public Guardian or under private guardianship. However, in our world, we continue […]
GREGORY CARTER, PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATE, PLEADS GUILTY TO FRAUD, PERJURY, OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE
Gregory Carter, Psychological Associate pleaded guilty Tuesday to charges of professional misconduct. He faces criminal charges, including fraud, perjury and obstruction of justice and there are additional complaints about him before the College of Psychologists of Ontario.
Betty Anne Gagnon: Sister, brother-in-law charged with manslaughter
EDMONTON — Betty Anne Gagnon was 48 years old when she died, barely able to see and unable to care for herself, was found dead on Nov. 20/09, curled in the front seat of a pickup truck parked at a gas station near Edmonton. Her face was bruised and one eye was black. According to […]