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TXTING 4 SENIORS LOL–Living On Lipitor

eguardianship — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 12:05:03 +0000

I have always talked about getting grandma on Facebook or have yiour father look up guys he knew in Korea. Socializaion helps. Tim Cearfoss shared these texts for the over 60 set: Teens have theirs, now Seniors have their very own texting codes. I thought the following listing was appropriate … After all the kids …

Mom and The Arab Spring

DE — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 20:05:11 +0000

By Attorney David Engler There have been powerful world convulsing events over the last year where the heroes used Twitter, Facebook and the power of a digital image. The Arab Spring began when Buoazizi set himself and fruit cart afire in protest over Tunisian dictatorship. In Egypt the end came when Asmaa Fahouf posted her …

It’s Never Too Late To Make a New Friend

DE — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 18:12:37 +0000

By Attorney David Engler Wanda and Stella Wanda is my Mom. Parkinson’s disease has slowly but assuredly taken her strength and her voice. The stroke on the Royal Wedding Day this spring did not help matters either. But as the New Year approaches she is in the Maine Veterans Home. She does not want to …

VINDY: Atty. Engler probing deaths at Trumbull Children Services

DE — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 13:37:30 +0000

Published: Sun, December 18, 2011 @ 12:10 a.m. ATTORNEY LOOKS INTO DEATHS OF 2 IN 2003 By Ed Runyan runyan@vindy.com WARREN An attorney who has applied pressure to Trumbull County Children Services for months says he’s uncovered evidence that the agency’s problems date back to 2003 — when two children died. Atty. David Engler encouraged …

Philadelphia Abuser shows need for more investigation and recordkeeping

DE — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 18:21:01 +0000

By Attorney David Engler The Philadelphia Enquirer reported December 9, 2011 on one of the nation’s most horrific example of abusing a ward or in Linda Weston’s case a “payee”. Weston is accused of imprisoning intellectually challenged adults in a Tacony cellar and stealing their federal benefits. Weston was the official recipient of Social Security …

Brains Shrink, Heads Grow!

DE — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 21:03:41 +0000

By Attorney David Engler The terrible irony of getting older is that the physical size of our head gets bigger as the size of our brain decreases. I have seen pictures taken 20 years ago and I can hardly recognize myself. The hair has fallen out, grayed and my eyelids droop. I have not invested …

80 Year Old Gets Probation Over Punching Obsessive Putter

DE — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 13:25:37 +0000

By Attorney David Engler In Florida if you punch a guy over 65 in the nose it is a felony. No matter what. A Sheet and Tube Mill retired mid-level executive and his retired school teacher wife moved to a Condo golf course townhouse near Naples. A boy who had grown-up in Brier Hill during …

Standing in the Nursing Home Doorway: Do you sign?

DE — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 19:37:15 +0000

By Attorney David Engler You are at the nursing home. It was a terrible decision you had been forced to make because your Mom had told you years before that she never wanted to go to a nursing home. She said she would rather die. As if that weren’t bad enough, the nursing home now …

Two Stories of Abused Adults – Women and Sex & Disabled Adults, both exploited in the City of Brotherly Love

DE — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 18:31:53 +0000

By Attorney David Engler Two stories from this week’s pages of The Philadelphia Inquirer: 13 arrested in prostitution raid at Philly Mummers club One night a month, police say, the inside of the modest Mummers’ Downtowners Fancy Brigade clubhouse in South Philadelphia transformed into a bacchanalian free-for-all where dozens of men ate, drank, and had …

A Real Life Forrest Gump…Record the Memories

eguardianship — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 14:04:29 +0000

By Attorney David Engler There is nothing more lasting than memories. It is one of the cruel ironies that the diseases of the elderly like Alzheimer’s and dementia often rob our loved ones or wards of the past. I have advocated in the blog post: “Let Grandma Facebook” that we should try to teach seniors …