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Alaska
| December 14 2004 |
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Governor Proposes More Services for Seniors |
- Vulnerable Adult Abuse
- Services
- Legislation
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Governor Frank H. Murkowski has proposed a budget that includes adding a full-time staff person to help with Adult Protective Services investigations." |
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SitNews
http://www.sitnews.us/1204news/121404/121404_seniorcare.html
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| February 16 2005 |
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| Title: |
AARP's legislative priorities |
- Vulnerable Adult Abuse
- Services
- Legislation
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| Comments: |
AARP supports the governor's proposal to provide an additional investigator for adult protective services. |
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Juneau Empire
www.juneauempire.com/stories/021605/nei_20050216020.shtml
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Marianne Mills
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| February 21 2005 |
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| Title: |
New checks required for long-term caregivers |
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Deeper and more comprehensive background checks will be made on applicant workers for long-term care facilities. These will include state criminal records, and fingerprint checks against state and national databases. The checks will be repeated every two years after a person is hired; national criminal background checks must be repeated every six years. Alaska is one of six states that have received a federal grant to pilot programs to help determine the effectiveness of national background checks. "Alaska now has the second-fastest-growing elder population in the nation, after Nevada." |
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Anchorage Daily News
http://www.adn.com/life/story/6196488p-6070794c.html
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| Author: |
Megan Holland
mrholland@adn.com |
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| March 30 2005 |
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| Title: |
Alaska's adult protection system |
- Vulnerable Adult Abuse
- Services
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Article notes that the whole state has only seven caseworkers. One worker said, "Adult Protective Services seeks to achieve simultaneously and in order of importance: freedom, safety, least disruption of life-style and least restrictive care alternative." |
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Juneau Empire
http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/033005/nei_20050330024.shtml
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| February 28 2005 |
Anchorage |
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| Title: |
Victimized CAPA clients will receive restitution |
- Vulnerable Adult Abuse
- Prosecution
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| Comments: |
Lengthy article covers the theft from and planned restitution to at least 179 wards of the former Community Advocacy Project of Alaska. Also reviews a new law and policies designed to better protect wards from their guardians' misdeeds. |
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Anchorage Daily News
http://www.adn.com/front/story/6219616p-6094135c.html
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Lisa Demer
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| March 11 2005 |
Anchorage |
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| Title: |
Man to serve 2 years for assaulting disabled people |
- Vulnerable Adult Abuse
- Prosecution
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Jason Barbour, 26, was sentenced to two years in prison and two years of probation in exchange for a no contest plea to sexually assaulting two female and two male mentally challenged adults. The incidents took place at a party at Barbour's home. |
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KTUU
http://www.ktuu.com/CMS/templates/master.asp?articleid=12410&zoneid=4
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| Author: |
Megan Baldino
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| March 19 2005 |
Anchorage |
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| Title: |
Nurse indicted on fraud charges |
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The owner of On-Call Nursing of Alaska has been indicted on 13 felony counts of stealing more than $1.5 million from Medicaid by billing for services to dead patients, billing more hours than worked, and billing for clients for whom no care assessments had been completed. |
| Source: |
Anchorage Daily News
http://www.adn.com/news/alaska/story/6289297p-6164815c.html
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| Author: |
Ann Potempa
apotempa@adn.com |
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| April 20 2005 |
Anchorage |
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Anchorage man arraigned for identity theft |
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A 57-year-old man introduced to an 82-year-old man by the elder's son, has been arraigned on charges he used the elder's personal information to obtain seven credit cards and charge in excess of $34,000. The elder man had invited him to live with him to "help out." |
| Source: |
KTUU
http://www.ktuu.com/CMS/templates/master.asp?articleid=12993&zoneid=4
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| Author: |
Megan Baldino
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| April 30 2005 |
Anchorage |
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| Title: |
Witnesses say Boehm was victim |
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The defense team for Josef Boehm, a 61-year-old man who pleaded guilty to conspiring to commit child sex trafficking and providing drugs to people under 21 now says he was a victim of "elder abuse." "Drug dealers and dopers essentially took over Boehm's middle-class Oceanview home, defense lawyers and witnesses said, leaving the aging, semi-retired businessman to wallow in a crack addiction that impaired his judgement, left him deeply paranoid and emaciated him physically." |
| Source: |
Anchorage Daily News
http://www.adn.com/front/story/6437115p-6316322c.html
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| Author: |
Tataboline Brant
tbrant@adn.com |
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| August 11 2005 |
Anchorage |
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Assisted living home owner faces multiple charges |
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The owner of four assisted living homes known as Sweet Lorraine's Home Care has had his licenses stripped and is facing fines of more than $300,000. "The state claims [the owner] collected advanced payments well beyond what the law allows and paychecks to careworkers were late. In some cases, officials say the paychecks that arrived were used by the caseworkers to buy food for residents." |
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Channel 2 Broadcasting
http://www.ktuu.com/CMS/templates/alaska_news/master.asp?articleid=14675&zoneid=4
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Jason Moore
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