SF News Serramonte Plaza Caregiver Fined For Placing People With Criminal Records in Homes of the Elderly A Daly City-based senior care provider called Serving Seniors.Care had been hiring caretakers with criminal records, with the unsurprising result that one of them allegedly stole thousands of dollars from an elderly man.
SF News Senior Care Worker Charged With Elder Abuse After 94-Year-Old Man Dies From Drinking Cleaning Fluid A San Pablo woman has been charged with felony elder abuse after a resident at the Atria Senior Living facility in Walnut Creek died from drinking cleaning fluid, in a death that the facility allegedly first attempted to blame on Flamin’ Hot Cheetos.
SF News Study: Marijuana-Related Senior Citizen Emergency Room Visits Have Skyrocketed Over The Last 18 Years A just-published UC San Diego study says that senior citizen visits to the emergency room for cannabis-related reasons in California have increased by more than 1800% since 2003.
SF News Elderly Woman Dies, Two Hospitalized After Nursing Home Serves Them Dishwashing Detergent A 93-year-old woman is dead and two residents of a San Mateo assisted living facility are in the hospital after all three were mistakenly served dishwashing liquid to drink.
SF News Low-Income Seniors at Mission SRO Go Hungry After Food Pantry Stops Delivering Dozens of senior citizens who live at the Altamont Hotel at 3048 16th Street have reportedly resorted to begging on the street or scrounging for food after a food pantry that had delivered to them weekly stopped doing so for safety reasons several weeks ago.
SF News Senior Citizens Make Up Majority Of Identified Wildfire Victims ABC 7 reports that 70 elderly residents of a senior living community in Santa Rosa were allegedly left behind by nursing staff as the fire continued to burn throughout the city. Those residents
SF News Elder Abuse Suspicions Shut Down Unauthorized Senior Facility Near Haight A routine Friday morning medical call turned into a raid on what authorities suspect was a sham senior care facility in Cole Valley. The Examiner reports that seven senior citizens have been removed
SF News Video: How Does A 97-Year-Old Woman 'Feel Like A Little Kid'? By Visiting Google HQ. "Can you possibly tell me what, up there, that's so vacant to me, you call a 'cloud,'" Olive Horrell, a 97-year-old great-grandmother, asked at Google's Mountain View headquarters. Horrell's adorable wish — to
SF News Free Muni Approved For Seniors, People With Disabilities Free #Muni for seniors and people with disabilities rally about to start at City Hall. pic.twitter.com/Ki6N2tzNeN— Jerold Chinn (@jchinn84) January 20, 2015 In a unanimous vote yesterday, the SFMTA approved
SF News Arboreal Assault Suspect Apprehended In Golden Gate Park A 65-year-old vandal/senior citizen was arrested Wednesday morning in Golden Gate Park in connection with a string of attacks on defenseless local park trees. Suspect Ken Frisch was cited for malicious destruction
misc Photo du Jour 297 Scene from last week's Cougar Run, where women of-a-certain age (i.e., 35 or older) biked around the Mission with little to no shame. Check out more pictures.
