Oprah Puts Spotlight on Granny Cams
Posted on January 30th, 2008
by Emme Levine
We’ve all read stories about elder abuse and neglect. Even if you pay good money, incidents still happen. Recently, an episode on Oprah spotlighted this growing and very alarming social problem. The segment featured Jaki, a dutiful daughter who thought she had her bed-ridden father’s best interests at heart when she hired a caretaker named Anastasia to care for him while Jaki was at work. Her father was frail and suffering from dementia and a series of strokes, so Anastasia cared for Jaki’s dad in-home and full-time.
Jaki installed a surveillance camera because she “didn’t trust anybody” but after a while, failed to check on the tapes due to her busy lifestyle. After several weeks and acting on the sole basis of her intuition, she checked the tapes. What she saw shocked and devastated her. Jaki relates, “she just starts taking her fist and just beating him in his chest and in his stomach. I think every place on his body that she could actually strike him, she did.”
Devastated, Jaki called the police. Anastasia was “charged on multiple counts of second-degree assault, reckless endangerment and vulnerable adult abuse. After posting her $5,000 bail, Anastasia fled the country…just eight days before her trial.”
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It is great to notice that more news media and celebrity programs are publicizing the issue of Elder Abuse. More should follow. The only way to succeed in the push for social changes, in this case Elder Rights and Elder Abuse Prevention, is to keep the issue "on the boil" in headlines, talk-back radios, TV current affairs etc. Hopefully then, the policy-makers, legislators and others cannot avoid this important issue, and have to work harder at making changes that will make a difference in Elder Care.
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