Health Care & Hospital Law
May 6, 2019
An unspoken epidemic: elder neglect in California’s assisted living facilities
There are approximately 300,000 elderly Californians currently living in assisted living facilities throughout the state. While the laws governing large chain facilities and smaller facilities are the same, the worlds are completely different. Both have their separate horrors and pitfalls.
Kathryn A. Stebner
Principal
Stebner, Gertler, Guadagni & Kawamoto
Phone: (415) 362-9800
Email: kathryn@sggklaw.com
Kathryn has been advocating for the rights of elders in California for over 30 years. She works tirelessly as a civil litigator representing elders and their families against long term care facilities and financial institutions and as an advocate for legislative progress to increase legal protections for senior citizens and disabled adults.
Karman M. Guadagni
Managing Attorney
Stebner, Gertler, Guadagni & Kawamoto
Phone: (415) 362-9800
Email: karman@sggklaw.com
UC Hastings COL; San Francisco CA
Karman focuses her practice on representing elders and their families in cases against assisted living facilities and nursing homes involving abuse and neglect. She is a frequent speaker and author on these subjects and is committed to working to improve conditions for elders in California.
It is estimated that nearly 10 percent of Americans over age 60 have experienced elder abuse in some form or another, whether physical abuse, emotional abuse, financial exploitation or neglect. Yet while coverage of injuries caused by physical abuse and financial abuse is dramatic, the injuries caused by neglect, such as bedsores, falls leading to fractures or head injuries, overmedication, malnutrition or dehydration, are often undetected or swept up in an elder's la...
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