Seniors Are Buying Tiny Homes to Live Their Golden Years Off the Grid

It’s now a significant trend among senior citizens to buy cute tiny homes for their post-retirement years. Not RVs, but tiny wooden structures sometimes put up on wheels as an alternative to assisted living. These homes make it easy for elderly people to cope on their own.

Having to worry about paying an outrageous mortgage and managing excess space is not healthy. A lot of elderly people want something cozy and compact to make life less stressful. It’s also much easier to make small homes suited to the needs of the elderly.

Tiny homes make living off the grid more feasible

In a chat with Sanluisobispo.com, 72-year-old Bette Presley reveals how comfortable her life has been in her tiny home. She lives off the grid in a mobile 166-square inch home in Arroyo Grande, and she’s confessed to living her best life for the past 14 years.

Mrs. Presley had wanted somewhere small and cozy she could live entirely off the grid and be mobile. She got her dream when her tiny home with wheels came in and solar panels were installed. She got rid of a lot of the old, useless stuff taking up her space, and she moved in with the most essential items. She wanted to reconnect with nature, and her new home literally brings her ‘down to earth’.

Tiny homes are great options for downsizing

When all your kids move away and you loathe the idea of assisted living, compact living may be the next best thing. In a chat with Today Home, 61-year-old retired music teacher Adele Smith said she couldn’t endure the size of her large house anymore.

`“I had my little corner of the living room where I’d watch TV, and I’d use the bathroom and my bedroom and the kitchen. And I’m like, I’m just storing crap in this house. I’m not using this stuff.”

Mrs. Smith decided to move into a tiny home because she couldn’t deal with the massive space she was living all alone in. Her only daughter had moved out and she needed something that’d make her feel less lonely.

She got rid of her 1300-square-foot and got a 140-square-foot bungalow in Oregon. It’s much smaller than she’s ever lived in, and she says, “It fits me to a T. I’m really very content.” Her new home has everything a home should have, and most importantly, it’s small.

Money saved when space is saved

Many elderly people move into these homes to save money, not particularly because they need to downsize. Tiny homes are quite affordable, ranging from $10,500 to about $20,000 depending on the size and furnishing. In fact, they have been selling quickly.

It’s the best option for anyone seeking something affordable and probably mortgage-free. A lot of elderly people being catered for by their children wouldn’t want them spending a lot on useless space. They opt to move into these tiny homes so their children can save funds.

Assisted living, move over!

Tiny homes are a great alternative for senior citizens who don’t want to move into assisted living. The homes can be tweaked to suit their physical and mental needs. According to Today Home, Dani Moore who has osteoporosis had a wheel-chair ramp installed in front of her house.

She also installed a chain host with a rock climbing harness to help her lift off her seat. Some tiny homes even have visual and voice assistants to remind the elderly of certain things, such as prayer and medication.

MEDCottage designs and constructs tiny homes with this purpose as a major pace-setter. Their cute homes – nicknamed “granny pods” – are state-of-the-art homes that basically watch over the elderly. Their homes have facilities equipped into the tiny spaces to make it easy for elderly people to live on their own, unaided by nurses and caregivers.

Tiny homes as a business strategy

The Sausage Nonnas of Italy are using their tiny mobile homes to put the ‘-s’ in ‘strategy’. These three grandmothers from Italy run a wonderful sausage delivery service in Chicago from their small homes. They make sausages on Sundays for events. Sometimes, they move their homes the location and set up shop on site. Other times, they just deliver batches to their clients. Nonna Antonia, Nonna Gina, and Nonna Lidia can’t stop being working class ladies, even in their golden years!

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Assisted-living facility owner charged with raping 67-year-old woman with dementia

A woman who ran an assisted-living facility out of her Baltimore home was charged with raping a 67-year-old woman suffering from dementia, court records show.

Dorothy Ann Brown, 72, was arrested last month over the allegations, which were reported to police in June – prompting five adults in her care at a home in the 4500 block of Garden Drive to be relocated or to move in with relatives, according to court records cited by the Baltimore Sun.

The 67-year-old victim who “suffers from a diminished mental capacity” told police that Brown forced her to perform oral sex in the basement of Brown’s home. Brown also performed oral sex and other sex acts on the woman before threatening to assault her by slapping her face if she relayed details of the assault to anyone, the woman told police.

Detectives responded in June to Golden Doves Adult Medical Daycare, where the victim told staffers about the alleged abuse. Staffers at the facility then contacted police, the Baltimore Sun reports.

An assistant manager at Golden Doves told the newspaper that he remembered the victim getting emotional while reporting the alleged abuse to a social worker. The woman had been visiting the facility for about a year for medical care while living at Brown’s home facility, assistant manager Ashfaq Ahmed said.

A forensic examination taken at a hospital later revealed that Brown’s DNA was found on the woman’s breasts, according to charging documents.

Police told the newspaper that the victim was then removed from Brown’s care and returned to live with her relatives.

Attempts to reach Brown — who was released on her own recognizance last week on charges of first-degree rape, vulnerable adult abuse and other counts — were unsuccessful Friday.

Brown’s attorney, Richard K. Scott, told the newspaper that Brown will plead not guilty to the allegations. She’s scheduled to return to court on Feb. 21.

“As a result of the allegations that were made against her, [state officials] forced her to close down her adult day care,” Brown told the Baltimore Sun. “They took away her income and put her in jail for several days. She’s been in the business of adult day care for 50 years with no problems from what she told me.”

Scott did not return a message seeking comment on Friday.

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North Carolina News: Durham Woman, Teresa Denise Schneider Who Defrauded Elderly Victim Pleads Guilty

Winston-Salem, N.C. – A woman who embezzled from an older person for whom she was a caretaker pleaded guilty to federal charges on Friday, February 8, announced United States Attorney Matthew G.T. Martin for the Middle District of North Carolina.

Teresa Denise Schneider, 52, of Durham, North Carolina, pleaded guilty to one count of bank fraud and one count of wire fraud, in front of the Honorable Loretta C. Biggs, United States District Judge for the Middle District of North Carolina.

“We should honor our elders, not steal from them. Ms. Schneider abused her position of trust as caretaker. We will aggressively pursue those who commit such acts,” said U.S. Attorney Martin, adding, “I commend the Department of Treasury Task Force, NC SBI, and AUSA Chut who worked diligently to make sure this defendant is held accountable for exploiting a vulnerable victim and abusing the trust of the victim’s family.”

According to court documents, Schneider began caring for the victim in 2010 and continued to do so until the victim’s death of natural causes at the age of ninety in 2013. During this time, family members of the victim, who visited almost daily, became concerned about Schneider’s involvement in the victim’s finances. In September 2011, a family member instructed Schneider to provide monthly copies of all bank and credit card statements. Schneider complied, but after the victim’s death, the family discovered that the account statements Schneider provided had been altered to remove or conceal transfers of funds to Schneider. In total, Schneider embezzled approximately $370,000 from the victim.

Schneider’s main source for converting the victim’s funds to her own use involved the victim’s credit card. Schneider transferred funds from the victim’s deposit and investment accounts to overpay wildly the credit card by tens of thousands of dollars. Schneider then converted this money in two ways. First, she made numerous unauthorized purchases on the card, including paying for spa treatments, travel, college tuition, dining, and expensive shopping sprees at department stores. Second, Schneider used a direct transfer feature of the credit card to transfer over $100,000 to her personal bank account.

Schneider knew that she was not entitled to these funds and not authorized to make these transfers.
The sentencing is set for July 18, 2019, at 9:30 a.m. in Winston-Salem. Schneider faces up to thirty years in prison, a fine of up to $1,000,000, and supervised release of not more than five years following release from prison. At sentencing Schneider will also be ordered to pay restitution.

This case was investigated by the United States Department of Treasury Office of Inspector General Task Force and the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation. Assistant United States Attorney Frank J. Chut, Jr. prosecuted the case.

Elder abuse includes physical abuse, caregiver neglect, financial exploitation, psychological abuse, sexual abuse, and abandonment. Since President Trump signed the bipartisan Elder Abuse Prevention and Prosecution Act into law, the Department of Justice has participated in hundreds of enforcement actions in criminal and civil cases that targeted or disproportionately affected seniors.

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Lawsuit: November death of Mount Carmel patient triggered investigation

A Grove City woman who went to Mount Carmel West hospital was the last intensive-care patient to receive an excessive and potentially fatal dose of pain medication from Dr. William Husel, and the case triggered the hospital's investigation, attorneys said Wednesday.

Husel apparently was escorted out of the hospital sometime after 82-year-old Melissa Penix died shortly before 11 p.m. on Nov. 20. She had received a 2,000-microgram dose of the opioid fentanyl, said attorney Craig Tuttle of the Columbus firm Leeseberg & Valentine.

The dose is the highest reported by attorneys representing more than 15 families of Mount Carmel Health System patients who died under Husel's care. The highest previously reported dosage was 1,000 micrograms.

Tuttle called the dose given Penix "absurd and unfathomable."

"It was just stunning. ... And the family was appalled and shocked at learning the truth," he said.

Health care professionals have told The Dispatch that a 250-microgram dose would be enough to raise questions.

Husel has been accused of ordering excessive doses of painkiller from 2015 to 2018 for 33 near-death patients at Mount Carmel West in Franklinton and one such patient at Mount Carmel St. Ann's in Westerville. All the patients died, and Mount Carmel has said the doses potentially caused the deaths of 28 of them.

Attorneys said a wrongful-death lawsuit probably will be filed on behalf of Penix's husband in Franklin County Common Pleas Court on Thursday. A copy of the suit decries the health system for failing to act on formal complaints filed on Oct. 25 and Nov. 19 about Husel's care, and it says that hospital representatives told Penix's family that her death triggered their investigation.

Mount Carmel has said Husel was removed from patient care on Nov. 21, and it has acknowledged that three patients died after the Oct. 25 complaint. A public apology was issued in January. All patient families also have been notified about the dosing issues, the system has said.

"Our family is immensely disappointed in the tragic choices of Dr. William Husel, the nurses, pharmacists, and leadership of Mount Carmel Health System," Penix's family said in a statement. "Melissa, affectionately known as Mel or Meemaw, was a devoted Christian, a wife of more than 65 years, a mother to all who graced her home, a loving and laughing grandmother and cookie-giving, color-right-along-with-you great-grandmother."


The Penix suit will name as defendants Mount Carmel, Husel, a pharmacist believed to have approved the order, and a nurse believed to have administered it. It also will list unnamed administrators and managers who were aware of the Oct. 25 report and/or the Nov. 19 report.

Penix, the law firm said in a statement, had been taken to the hospital with stomach pain on Nov. 15 and subsequently was diagnosed with pneumonia. On Nov. 19, she was admitted to the ICU with increasing difficulty breathing and was placed on a ventilator to allow her body to rest and heal, the statement said.

Penix was able to smile, make gestures and interact with family members, according to the firm. Then, on the afternoon of Nov. 20, she complained of stomach pain. A few hours later, Husel told her family that she had a severe stomach infection and was brain-dead, and that her organs were failing, the firm said. They were encouraged to remove care, which they did.

Penix, the firm said, died within five minutes of being administered the fentanyl.

Also on Tuesday, attorney David Shroyer, who has filed three wrongful-death lawsuits in Franklin County Common Pleas Court on behalf of patient families, said he submitted a motion agreeing to postpone questioning Husel under oath but asking a judge to allow the civil cases and evidence-gathering to proceed.

The motion is in response to one filed Tuesday by Husel's attorney, Gregory Foliano, who argued that the civil cases should be put on hold until after the completion of a related criminal investigation and any potential prosecution so that Husel does not have to respond to questions that could be used as evidence in any criminal matter.

The Ohio Department of Health said Mount Carmel submitted a correction plan Wednesday for St. Ann's hospital in response to a warning from the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services that the hospital could be terminated from the Medicare program over serious pharmaceutical-service deficiencies. A plan for Mount Carmel West was submitted Tuesday.

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Disbarred Georgia attorney Richard Merritt on the run after allegedly killing his mother

A nationwide manhunt is underway for a disbarred Georgia attorney accused of killing his mother.

Richard Merritt had been sentenced to 15 years in prison and 15 years on probation after being convicted of stealing money from his clients and elder abuse. The court found him guilty on more than 30 counts of theft, forgery and elder exploitation.

He was given until 5 p.m. on February 1 to get his affairs in order before turning himself in.

Instead, the US Marshal Service says he cut off his ankle monitor and fled.

The day after Merritt was supposed to surrender, his mother, Shirley Merritt, was found violently killed. Her car was missing, while Merritt's vehicle was found at the scene, the US Marshal Service said in a statement.

"The vehicle he may be driving is a 2009 silver Lexus RX350, bearing a Georgia tag CBV 6004," the US Marshal Service's statement reads. "He may have shaved his head or otherwise changed his appearance, and should be considered armed and dangerous. Do not try to engage him. If you see Merritt, please contact law enforcement immediately."

Merritt had admitted to settling civil lawsuits on his clients' behalf without their knowledge, forging signatures on settlement checks and documents and keeping money intended for his clients, the Cobb County District Attorney's office said in a statement.

"The victims came to him for help, and he helped himself instead," Senior Assistant District Attorney Jason Marbutt said. "People ought to be able to trust their lawyer. When a lawyer lies, it has ripple effects on the entire system."

Merritt was also ordered to pay $454,706 in restitution to his clients.

"Some of his client-victims were pursuing medical malpractice claims and are now further injured financially because of Merritt's crimes and abuse," the Cobb County DA's office said. "Some other victims are elderly. Merritt lied to the victims, leading them to believe he was still pursuing their legal claims. Meanwhile, he was spending the unauthorized settlement funds on lavish vacations and a Porsche."

CNN has reached out to the lawyer representing Merritt in his initial conviction for comment but has not yet received a response.

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Disbarred Georgia attorney Richard Merritt on the run after allegedly killing his mother

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Disbarred Lawyer Jailed on Theft, Elder Abuse Charges

Great Falls woman allegedly stole more than $20K from 82-year-old

Karen Mills Thomas

A local woman faces a second set of charges for elder exploitation after authorities claimed she stole more than $20,000 from an 82-year-old woman over the past two years.

In September 2018, Adult Protective Services received a referral regarding financial exploitation by Karen Mills Thomas.

Thomas, 66, currently has criminal charges pending for elder exploitation against a different victim.

According to charging documents, Thomas offered to help an elderly woman with her finances after she broke her arm. The woman resides in a local nursing home.

The woman claimed she had not seen her bank or credit card statements in several years because Thomas had them all sent to her home address. The woman asked to see the statements, but Thomas would not bring them to her.

The woman said when she went to her credit union to review her bank account, she noticed changes she had not made. She showed the manager her debit card, which had expired, and the manager told her she had been sent a new card. The address where the card was sent belonged to Thomas.

A teller at the bank provided a letter indicating that Thomas had identified herself as the alleged victim and provided a password for her account.

Upon review of the bank statements, APS found that Thomas had not paid any of the woman’s bills in more than a year. The woman’s credit report showed several new accounts that she claimed she did not open or give permission to open, and some of the woman’s existing accounts had balances she said were much higher than those she had accrued.

In October 2018, the alleged victim requested a change of address from Thomas’ address to her own and began receiving bills in her name.

It was also discovered that Thomas’ alleged lack of payment had landed the woman in collections on several accounts for balances she had not accrued.

Thomas allegedly racked up debts at Sears, Pier 1, Herberger’s, Montgomery Wards and Target. She also allegedly signed up for Direct TV under the woman’s name and had the service hooked up at her own address.

The affidavit states that a total of $20,619.98 is unaccounted for in the alleged victim’s credit union account, and this total does not include the expenditures on the woman’s existing credit cards and accounts or the new credit cards and accounts that Thomas allegedly opened in the woman’s name.

In August and September 2018, Thomas allegedly wrote a total of three checks for the woman’s rent at the nursing home that were returned for insufficient funds.

Thomas was arrested on a warrant with a $10,000 bond.

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Grandparents Getting Ripped Off Is A $3 Billion Problem

CHICAGO (CBS) — Many seniors suffering from dementia are getting fleeced out of their money, often by someone they know.

“He had lung cancer and he had advanced dementia,” Paul Barnett said of his uncle near the end of his life.

After fighting in the Korean War Ollie settled in a Park Manor home, later collecting a nice pension from his days working at Chicago Public Schools.

“My uncle was receiving $4,200 a month,” Barnett said.

Barnett said Robert Griffin was his uncle’s friend and would help him out.

“Mow the lawn and shovel snow and go to the store for him,” Barnett said.

When Uncle Ollie recently died, Barnett took possession of the estate and noticed suspicious activity on a bank account he shared with his uncle.

“There were a lot of checks for cash for $5,000 just written out to “Cash,” he said.

By Barnett’s analysis, the checks in question totaled more than $100,000. All were signed by Ollie Smith, but Barnett said his uncle’s friend, Robert Griffin, told him he signed Ollie Smith’s name on the checks even though he didn’t have power of attorney.

Griffin would not talk to CBS 2 Investigators on camera but did say twice during phone conversations that he signed the checks in question using the name Ollie Smith.

Griffin claims that Ollie asked him to sign the checks because he no longer could, and he claims he used the money to pay bills for Ollie but can’t provide a detailed accounting of the funds.

And there’s a Veterans insurance policy for $10,000. The beneficiary changed to Robert Griffin – signed by Ollie Smith – but after Paul objected the Veterans Administration ruled the signature was a forgery and gave the money to Paul.

Again Griffin claims Ollie told him to sign his name.

Barnett said he thinks Griffin took advantage of his uncle and his dementia.

“Oh yes, definitely,” he said. “It’s called undue influence.”

To make matters worse, Paul Barnett’s name was on his uncle’s account at Hyde Park Bank. But he was never notified of the large withdrawals for cash.

A spokesman for Hyde Park bank said they cannot comment on specific bank procedures, but they do take elderly abuse very seriously and provide training for their staff.

Charles Golbert, acting Cook County Public Guardian, says the problem is “huge and it’s growing, and it’s continuing to grow.”

It’s Golbert’s job to protect the money and property of those who can’t do it themselves and have no one else to help.

“Today with the aging baby boomers, robbing older people is a lot easier than robbing banks, and its where the money is today,” he said.

Forty percent of the new cases in the public guardian’s office involve  financial theft of the elderly,

One such recent case involves Symphony nursing home.

“A worst case because of the top to bottom level of corruption,” Goldberg said.

Grace Watanabe suffers from Dementia. According to a civil suit filed by the public guardian’s office on Grace’s behalf, staff members at the Symphony nursing home stole more than $700,000 by forging her name on some checks and accessing her ATM account.

“They were really preying on her and trying to make her feel terrible about having money and not sharing with them,” said Dawn Lawkowski-Keller.

Watanabe said it makes her feel “angry and just terribly disappointed.”

And 96-Year old Nellie Bridgeman, who also suffers from dementia, was allegedly fleeced out of $330,000 by Nicholas Chervyatiuk, a priest at Nelly’s church.

Bridgeman said she trusted him — at first.

“I figured if you can’t trust a priest who can you trust?” she said.

Chervyatiuk is charged with theft and is awaiting trial.

“He shouldn’t have done that. That’s not his,” Bridgeman said.

About half of the states in the US have laws requiring banks to report suspected elder financial abuse. Illinois does not.

The public guardians office says such a law would help stop these types of cases much earlier on.

“Illinois is behind the curve on this,” Golbert said “Every time it’s been proposed the banks lobbyists have knocked it down.”

The Illinois Bankers Association says the industry “treats the issue of financial exploitation extremely seriously” but is concerned about banks “overly-reporting on customers” which could lead to “violating the customers’ expectations of trust and privacy.”

Golberts concern remains on the victims who end up losing their money.

When asked about the people who would do that to elderly people, Golbert said, “They’re scum. They’re also cowards, Don’t pick on people with dementia and physical infirmities and who are vulnerable and who are alone.”

Chicago police confirm they are investigating the case involving Ollie Smith’s money. A spokesperson for Symphony Residences says that upon learning about the incident with Grace Watanabe they contacted law enforcement and are cooperating with the investigation. They added that the employees named in the public guardians suit no longer work there.

Experts urge family members in cases like this to keep an eye on their loved ones’ financial statements.

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Rice Woman Charged With Felony Theft While Acting as Guardian

FOLEY -- The Benton County Attorney's Office has charged a Rice woman with illegally obtaining medical assistance while acting as the guardian and conservator for a man who was hurt in a car crash.

Fifty-two-year-old Sheila Burski is also charged with financial exploitation of a vulnerable adult for allegedly taking social security payments intended for that man, 69-year-old Norman Meinert.

The felony charges show Burski was appointed Meinert's guardian in December 2013. She listed Meinert had no assets when filing for medical assistance for him.  From 2013 until Meinert's death in the fall of 2017, the county and state paid approximately $132,000 in medical assistance payments.

Upon his death, Burski completed a final accounting of Meinert's estate and court records show several discrepancies, including a real estate sale from Meinert to Burski and her husband in the amount of $510,000 in 2005. In 2011, records show the contract for deed was satisfied somehow. Based on the monthly payments, Burski would have paid just over $162,000 of the $510,000. It's unknown if the nearly $350,000 remaining on the property was ever paid to Meinert.

The charges allege Burski didn't disclose the property sale. The contract for deed was satisfied in 2011 and with Meinert's accident occurring in 2013, the money fell within the 5-year look-back window to disclose assets and ultimately would have prevented Meinert from qualifying for the medical assistance payments.

Burski is also accused of taking Meinert's social security payments, cashing them through her own bank account and failing to disclose those payments over a three-month span in 2017 prior to Meinert's death.

Burski is due back in court April 24th.

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Arizona care unit where incapacitated woman gave birth to stay open

The embattled operators of an Arizona long-term care facility have agreed to be regulated by the state, effectively ending a plan to close down the unit where an incapacitated woman gave birth after being raped.

Patrick Ptak, spokesman for Governor Doug Ducey, said the state received written confirmation that Hacienda HealthCare would enter into a voluntary regulation agreement.

“This is good news and the best immediate outcome as it means Hacienda patients and families would be allowed to stay in the home they’ve known for years while ensuring new and enhanced protections and oversight are put in place,” Mr Ptak said in a statement.

Under the agreement, Hacienda will have to devise a long-term plan and timeline that priorities health and safety at the intermediate care facility where the victim resided.

Hacienda will also have to employ an on-site evaluator to make sure necessary changes have been met.

The care provider will have to work with an outside health care consultant until the state finds it is in compliance. All these conditions will also apply to the skilled nursing facility, which shares the same campus.

State agencies had issued an ultimatum after Hacienda HealthCare announced its decision to shut down on Thursday.

The provider would have to comply with an order to hire a long-term third-party management team. The other option was to allow the state Department of Health Services to hold licensing authority over the facility.

A closure would have forced the relocation of nearly 40 intellectually disabled patients, some of who are medically fragile.

State regulators vehemently opposed the idea. They also argued Hacienda contractually requires written consent from the state Department of Economic Security to close any operation.

The facility has been in turmoil since a 29-year-old patient gave birth on December 29. Nathan Sutherland, a nurse whose DNA police said matches a sample from the baby, has pleaded not guilty to charges that he raped her.

Hacienda has struggled to meet the state’s request to hire a third-party management team to oversee daily operations.

The provider had said its board “after a great deal of careful consideration, has come to understand that it is simply not sustainable to continue to operate our intermediate care facility”.

Hacienda operates the only privately-run intermediate care facility in Arizona. It currently serves 37 intellectually disabled children and adults. It would take weeks or months to transition all of them to other places.

“It’s not something you can do overnight,” said Will Humble, a former director of the Department of Health Services.

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