News for October 29th, 2008

Advocacy group wants more control over caregiver training

A Washington state advocacy group is hoping to raise awareness of the problem of abuse and neglect by caregivers of the elderly and disabled before voters approve Initiative 1029 on November 4, according to Columbian.com.

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Body of former nursing home patient found in brother’s trunk

When Penny Brown’s brother, Timothy Allen Brown, discharged the 31-year-old wheelchair-bound woman from her nursing home, Georgetown Healthcare Center, in 2006, he told the staff that he would take good care of his dependent sister.

It was the last time anyone saw her alive.

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