Sentences with phrase «of vulnerable seniors»

Michelle R. Rack brings her considerable litigation experience to the Firm to serve clients involved in disputes arising in the context of contested wills and trusts and breaches of fiduciary duty requiring the judicial removal of executors and trustees, as well as conservators and attorneys - in - fact engaging in financial exploitation of vulnerable seniors.
These lowlifes will try anything to get money out of vulnerable seniors.
Abuse can have a severe physical and emotional impact on the health of a vulnerable senior and the nursing home needs to be held accountable when abuse occurs.

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Even paramedics, who are trained to handle stress in emergency situations, are vulnerable, says Tommy Duhon, senior vice-president of human resources at Acadian Ambulance and Air Med Services, in Lafayette, La..
«Legacy systems running outdated software and vulnerable application elements are contributing to these companies being a prime target for compromise,» says Jay Kaplan, CEO of Synack, a security firm that sells subscription security software, and a former NSA senior cyber analyst.
There are an increasing number of scams perpetrated by professional thieves who often target vulnerable seniors.
It is shocking that so many vulnerable seniors are falling victim to the growing scourge of elder financial abuse.
VICTORIA — The Christy Clark government is failing to protect an increasingly vulnerable senior population from the effects of the affordability crisis, say the New Democrats.
While behaviour change and decongestion are often the objectives, the decongestion charge should not come at the expense of vulnerable groups, such as low income individuals and families, persons with disabilities and seniors.
Our Seniors are some of our most fragile and vulnerable people that we serve.
Seniors are statistically one of the most vulnerable groups when it comes to having a car accident for example, which is a scenario where you might then need to call upon the services of someone like bobrichardsonlaw.com.
The charity has previously called for local authorities to identify a senior member of staff to lead on women and homelessness and for them to ensure that organisations coming into contact with vulnerable women recognise the risks of homelessness and are equipped to provide preventative support.
Senior political reporter Simone Pathé breaks down the changes in Roll Call's list of the 10 most vulnerable lawmakers in each chamber.
«The Democratic field for Mayor this year was comprised of candidates who are passionate about improving the quality of life for workers, the middle class, and New York's most vulnerable, such as the poor and senior citizens,» said UAW Region 9A Director Julie Kushner.
They would not only roll back the progress we have made in increasing access to healthcare, they would threaten care for the most vulnerable, especially seniors and people with disabilities in need of long term care.
Jennifer Trepinski, Senior Loan Officer at Corporation for Supportive Housing, said, «Webster Green will become a home for vulnerable, low - income New Yorkers who are high - utilizers of Medicaid services, providing them a safe and supportive platform from which to stabilize their health and move forward with their lives.
This, she said, had made Ghana a role model for many African countries in the provision of free education and free compulsory universal basic education and free community day Senior High Schools had increased access to education for many vulnerable groups.
Former senior police chief and Lib Dem home affairs spokesperson Brian Paddick said he was shocked by the revelations and is worried that it could put vulnerable people at higher risk of hate crimes.
The Vienna Senior Housing Complex and other developments like it address a critical need for our senior citizens, who are the most vulnerable members of our communSenior Housing Complex and other developments like it address a critical need for our senior citizens, who are the most vulnerable members of our communsenior citizens, who are the most vulnerable members of our communities.
If the situation has not improved by Labor Day, the RNC may need to begin redirecting resources to bolster vulnerable House and Senate candidates, as it did when Dole's defeat became apparent in the fall of 1996, a senior Republican said.
Lead sponsor of the County's Silver Alert Local Law, which is similar to the Amber Alert and is a public notification system that broadcasts information about missing persons - especially vulnerable seniors with Alzheimer's disease, dementia or other mental disabilities - in order to aid in their return.
«The loss of these funds would lead to the closure of 65 facilities which currently help 6,000 vulnerable senior citizen who rely on them to receive essential nutrition, socialization and health promotions activities,» Diaz wrote.
«There will be significant cuts, but they must be thoughtful, deliberate, and not place an unfair burden on the backs of seniors, our children, veterans or our most vulnerable citizens.»
The acting attorney general informed the Trump White House late last month that she believed Flynn had misled senior administration officials about the nature of his communications with the ambassador, and warned that the national security adviser was potentially vulnerable to Russian blackmail.
«As is, the exemptions exclude too many vulnerable seniors, especially in New York City, where the costs of living are so high.
We vowed not to allow our most vulnerable citizens, like the seniors who rely on senior centers throughout Lower Manhattan, to suffer because of an unnecessary tax cut for the wealthiest among us.
«Prevention is worth a pound a cure,» said the Comptroller, noting that senior citizens were among the most vulnerable targets of the «billion dollar fraud industry.»
«Jose will be a staunch advocate for Queens families and will continue his great work of standing up for the rights of working New Yorkers, immigrants, seniors, children and all of New York's most vulnerable individuals,» he said.
Michael Dugher, the shadow culture secretary, who is also vulnerable, went on the offensive yesterday, warning that Mr Corbyn would be left with a «politburo of seven» if he moved against his senior critics.
When the proposed cuts were announced on Thursday, City Councilmember Maragret Chin released a statement saying, «Governor Cuomo's budget again and again targets the most vulnerable members of our community... Cutting funds for senior citizens severs a lifeline to integral health care, nutrition, and counseling services.»
«We will now be able to work in tandem with other local law enforcement agencies and the media in alerting the public of a missing senior, as time is of the essence when it comes to bringing these vulnerable citizens home to avert a tragedy.»
The bill expands the Senior Citizen Homeowners» Exemption (SCHE) and the Disabled Homeowners» Exemption (DHE), two indispensable programs that offer some of New York's most vulnerable residents who live on fixed incomes with a 50 % reduction on their property taxes.
Hirdes is also the senior Canadian researcher for interRAI, an international network of researchers committed to improving care and quality of life for vulnerable populations.
Pressure ulcers affect more than 2.5 million Americans annually and patients who have spinal cord injuries that impair movement are more vulnerable to developing them, said senior investigator Yoram Vodovotz, Ph.D., professor of surgery and director of the Center for Inflammation and Regenerative Modeling at the Pitt School of Medicine.
«This study tells us more about which children are most vulnerable to symptoms of PTSD and emphasizes the importance of limiting media exposure for all children and adolescents following life - threatening events such as acts of terrorism,» said senior author Dr. Margaret Sheridan.
One of the members, senior project coordinator Jim Sipes of the Atlanta office of EDAW, a landscape architecture and planning firm, exploited existing data to model which low - lying regions are most at risk from storm surges and flooding and where the most vulnerable populations are concentrated.
«Now that we know the mice can be vulnerable to Zika infection, we can use the animals to test vaccines and therapeutics — and some of those studies are already underway — as well as to understand the pathogenesis of the virus,» said senior author Michael Diamond, MD, PhD, a professor of medicine at Washington University.
Dr Sue Ward, the Senior Research Associate for the project at Lancaster University, said: «Peat is one of the earth's most important stores of carbon, but one of the most vulnerable to changes in climate and changes in vegetation caused by both climate and land management.
The National Physicians Alliance, one of the doctors groups that opposes Price's nomination, has said his interest in moving to «privatize Medicare would end the healthcare guarantee for our nation's 57 million seniors and drastically hurt our most elderly and vulnerable patients.»
«Our laboratory has been working to understand the molecules and pathways that make the kidneys so vulnerable to so many stressors, including toxins and poor blood flow,» explained senior author Samir Parikh, MD, an investigator in the Division of Nephrology and in the Center for Vascular Biology Research (CVBR) at BIDMC and Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School.
A large, randomized clinical trial tested whether a flu vaccine with four times the antigen of a standard vaccine could reduce the risk of hospitalization among those especially vulnerable seniors.
Senior researcher Professor Neena Modi from the Department of Medicine, Imperial College London says: «Our research shows that neonatal units that are larger and busier in terms of the amount of care they provide to preterm babies are more likely to show better clinical outcomes for these vulnerable infants.
«We found that the same machinery that makes these tumors so aggressive also makes them vulnerable to nutrient deprivation,» said senior study author Jen - Tsan Ashley Chi, Ph.D., associate professor of molecular biology and microbiology at Duke University School of Medicine.
«Billions of lines of vulnerable code are out there,» said the study's senior author, Junfeng Yang, a computer science professor at Columbia Engineering and member of the Data Science Institute.
To find out what someone who treats patients for eating disorders thinks of the film — and suggestions that it glamorizes anorexia, or could be triggering for vulnerable viewers — Health spoke with Bonnie Brennan, a licensed professional counselor and senior clinical director of adult services at Eating Recovery Center in Denver.
Genuine people who are interested in you should never ask for any kind of financial assistance, and seniors on dating sites are often targets of financial scams because they are thought to be richer and more vulnerable than the younger populations.
Here are some of the major factors that make seniors vulnerable to online scams..
He created the Credit Abuse Resistance Education (CARE) program, which provides free educational materials and marshals a network of bankruptcy judges, lawyers, and trustees to teach high school seniors and college freshmen — a vulnerable demographic — about financial responsibility.
Tredway is senior associate for IEL's Leaders for Today and Tomorrow Project, a catalyst for engaging institutions of higher education, school districts, and nonprofits in uncovering and coordinating efforts in social justice preparation, particularly to support of urban and rural leaders in the most vulnerable schools.
Whoever it is — is targeting the most vulnerable — the seniors of a small northwoods town.
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