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- By Rejoyce Wilson-Herbert
- Published 08/16/2010
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Rejoyce Wilson-Herbert
Rejoyce Wilson-Herbert is the founder of National Information Resource Services (NIRS), an organization committed to educating people on the home care industry. Currently residing in Newport Coast, CA, Rejoyce is the General Manager of MemorialCare Home Caregivers. She is also a nationally recognized advocate for the elderly
and is one of the most highly-sought after speakers in her field. She is a proud mother, grandmother and great-grandmother and continues to work hard and help people realize their own goals.
My hair is white
My eyes are dim
My hands they shake
My steps are slow
But my heart still beats
With The Red Blood Of Love
You may hurt my body
You may confuse my mind
You may take away my positions
You may neglect and abandon me
But my heart still beats
With The Red Blood Of Love
Why do you abuse me?
Why do you neglect and abandon me?
Can’t you see that my heart still beats
With the Red Blood Of Love
For you ... and for me.
The United States of America has done wonders to promote safety for its children. As a country we have many systems in place that alert us when a child is abducted or abused. We feel a outrage when we hear stories of children being abused by family members, friends and strangers.
Because of the tremendous amount of public awareness and our collective involvement in bringing child abusers to justice, we have seen a noticeable decline in child abuse, abandonment, and neglect cases in recent years.
These steps are encouraging to those of us fighting to protect another relatively defenseless sector of our population ... our elders. This group suffers many of the same types of abuses; both physical and emotional. Some are abandoned, others neglected, others abused by family, friends and strangers -- the very people entrusted with their care. There is a tremendous need for public awareness on this subject.
Though our elderly people are not children -- and should never be treated or thought of as children -- they become, especially a they advance in years, increasingly dependent on others for their care and support. It's time for our media and social networking powers to be put to use to engage the public. The time has come to see the this epidemic for what it is and to take steps to prevent and stop elder abuse.
What is Elder Abuse?
An article from the Bay Area News dated June 25, 2010 reported that a 70 year old female named Mary Jane Scanlon hired a caretaker from craigslist.com. She was found dead in her home. She had been stabbed repeatedly. Her live-in caregiver, Diane Warrick, was later arrested for the murder.
In the Laguna Woods Orange County area of Southern California, a 90-year-old man hired a caregiver who he met through another resident of the Laguna Woods area. After caring for the 90-year-old man for three months, the caregiver stopped showing up for work. Days later the 90-year-old man went to his bank to make a withdrawal and found out that ninety thousand dollars was taken from his account.
There are so many real life stories of elder abuse that it would take volumes to write them all.
Here are just a few disturbing statistics:
Unfortunately there are limited systems in place to protect our elderly at this time. We need to change that. We need a major public awareness campaign -- on par with the efforts used to stop child abuse -- to see see these figures decline.
But stop for a moment ... Think of elderly friends and families ... Think of the people who did so much to make this country what it is. These people gave of themselves to younger generations; they created a legacy that makes us all proud to be Americans. Some did great things ... some did small things with great love ... all deserve our love and protection as they face their golden years.
I do believe that if each person living in the United States of America would adopt the same concerns for the elderly as we have done for our children, the abuse of our elders would stop.
This article was written to motivate people to get involved, to increase public awareness, and to bring an end, or at least a decline, to the number of elder abuse cases.
Let us all stand up for our elderly people living in our communities.
Let us stand up for those who sometimes are not able to stand up for themselves.
Lets us speak of elder abuse on our airwaves, at our dinner tables, at our water coolers during our break times.
Let us teach our children the value of an elderly person.
Let us get the abusers caught, convicted and imprison.
Please lend your voice to STOP ELDER ABUSE NOW.
My eyes are dim
My hands they shake
My steps are slow
But my heart still beats
With The Red Blood Of Love
You may hurt my body
You may confuse my mind
You may take away my positions
You may neglect and abandon me
But my heart still beats
With The Red Blood Of Love
Why do you abuse me?
Why do you neglect and abandon me?
Can’t you see that my heart still beats
With the Red Blood Of Love
For you ... and for me.
The United States of America has done wonders to promote safety for its children. As a country we have many systems in place that alert us when a child is abducted or abused. We feel a outrage when we hear stories of children being abused by family members, friends and strangers.
Because of the tremendous amount of public awareness and our collective involvement in bringing child abusers to justice, we have seen a noticeable decline in child abuse, abandonment, and neglect cases in recent years.
These steps are encouraging to those of us fighting to protect another relatively defenseless sector of our population ... our elders. This group suffers many of the same types of abuses; both physical and emotional. Some are abandoned, others neglected, others abused by family, friends and strangers -- the very people entrusted with their care. There is a tremendous need for public awareness on this subject.
Though our elderly people are not children -- and should never be treated or thought of as children -- they become, especially a they advance in years, increasingly dependent on others for their care and support. It's time for our media and social networking powers to be put to use to engage the public. The time has come to see the this epidemic for what it is and to take steps to prevent and stop elder abuse.
What is Elder Abuse?
An article from the Bay Area News dated June 25, 2010 reported that a 70 year old female named Mary Jane Scanlon hired a caretaker from craigslist.com. She was found dead in her home. She had been stabbed repeatedly. Her live-in caregiver, Diane Warrick, was later arrested for the murder.
In the Laguna Woods Orange County area of Southern California, a 90-year-old man hired a caregiver who he met through another resident of the Laguna Woods area. After caring for the 90-year-old man for three months, the caregiver stopped showing up for work. Days later the 90-year-old man went to his bank to make a withdrawal and found out that ninety thousand dollars was taken from his account.
There are so many real life stories of elder abuse that it would take volumes to write them all.
Here are just a few disturbing statistics:
- In Los Angeles County CA, approximately 160,000 cases of elder and nursing home abuse are reported each year.
- Los Angeles County represents over 25% of all cases in California.
- Orange County, CA follows Los Angeles County with 53,000 cases of elder abuse.
- Between 2007 and 2008 the number of elder abuse cases in Los Angeles CA grew by 5,039.
Unfortunately there are limited systems in place to protect our elderly at this time. We need to change that. We need a major public awareness campaign -- on par with the efforts used to stop child abuse -- to see see these figures decline.
But stop for a moment ... Think of elderly friends and families ... Think of the people who did so much to make this country what it is. These people gave of themselves to younger generations; they created a legacy that makes us all proud to be Americans. Some did great things ... some did small things with great love ... all deserve our love and protection as they face their golden years.
I do believe that if each person living in the United States of America would adopt the same concerns for the elderly as we have done for our children, the abuse of our elders would stop.
This article was written to motivate people to get involved, to increase public awareness, and to bring an end, or at least a decline, to the number of elder abuse cases.
Let us all stand up for our elderly people living in our communities.
Let us stand up for those who sometimes are not able to stand up for themselves.
Lets us speak of elder abuse on our airwaves, at our dinner tables, at our water coolers during our break times.
Let us teach our children the value of an elderly person.
Let us get the abusers caught, convicted and imprison.
Please lend your voice to STOP ELDER ABUSE NOW.
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Article Series
This article is part 2 of a 2 part series. Other articles in this series are shown below:
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1 Response to "True Love"
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said this on 16 Aug 2010 7:43:00 PM CST
Great article and poem. Ms. Wilson-Herbert shows us once more that she is both a talented writer and an authority in the field of elder care.
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