Protect the vulnerable.

At ELDER CARE INVESTIGATIONS, we are dedicated to detecting, documenting, and preventing abuse, neglect, and financial exploitation. Specializing in cases involving senior citizens and teens in treatment centers or facilities in San Rafael, CA, we ensure justice for those who need it most. Join us in our mission to bring clarity and safety to your loved ones.

Our Specialized Investigations

ELDER CARE INVESTIGATIONS offers a comprehensive range of private investigative services, meticulously tailored to protect senior  and teens. Our focus is on providing thorough, discreet, and effective solutions to complex cases of abuse, neglect, and exploitation.

From inadequate care in nursing homes to insufficient supervision in foster care, we investigate cases of neglect that compromise the well-being of seniors and minors.

 

Elder abuse investigations

Elder Care Investigations, a division of Nick Marlowe In conducts discreet and thorough investigations into physical, emotional, and sexual abuse targeting senior citizens, ensuring evidence is meticulously documented for legal action or intervention.

Elder abuse can be very difficult to detect. Victims may be isolated, cognitively impaired, or too afraid or ashamed to speak up. Often the abuser is someone close to them: a caregiver, family member, or trusted professional.

We conduct investigations in the  San Francisco Bay Area. We assist families to uncover the facts and develop the evidence necessary to present to the appropriate authorities or court.

Elder abuse is more common than most people realize, and the concern of physical abuse, neglect, and financial exploitation is very real. It is estimated that 1 in 10 Americans over 60 have experienced some form of abuse in facilities, but only a fraction of those cases are reported.

"What Is Elder Abuse?

The types of elder abuse in California include:

  • Psychological or emotional abuse: This includes victim-blaming, intimidating, and threatening, among other behaviors. This is one of the most commonly reported types of elder mistreatment.
  • Physical abuse: This includes over-medicating, striking, kicking, pushing, hitting, scratching, and other forms of physical harm. According to the World Health Organization, physical abuse accounts for approximately 16.5% of reported senior abuse.
  • Sexual abuse: This form of abuse includes sexual exploitation, unwanted sexual contact, rape, and other types of offenses. Sexual assault is frightening and underreported. Reports indicate that sexual abuse in nursing homes is a rampant problem.
  • Financial abuse: This refers to embezzling or taking funds from a person over 60, without their express consent, or other forms of financial exploitation. The U.S. Department of Justice lists financial fraud as the most prevalent type of elder abuse.
  • Abandonment: This is the desertion of a dependent adult or senior by the caretaker.
  • Isolation: This refers to confining a senior to the home, preventing them from contacting friends or family, or otherwise keeping them alone.
  • Neglect: This can include failure to provide proper food, water, attire, and/or medications, or failure to maintain appropriate hygiene for a dependent adult. Neglect can result in dehydration, infection, bed sores, falls, and other types of serious injury. Neglect may be intentional, the result of caregiver burnout due to a lack of resources, or self-neglect by older adults." Berman & Riedel.LLP, Attorney at Law, https://bermanlawyers.com/resource-center/how-to-report-elder-abuse-in-california/

 

Teen treatment facility & Wilderness Program investigations

THE TROUBLED TEEN INDUSTRY

Parents are overwhelmed when their teen begins to act out inappropriately. A child is commonly sent to a residential treatment. The troubled teen industry (TTI) is a term used to describe a system of under-regulated residential youth treatment facilities in the United States, and outside the US.t center or wilderness program without investigation of the program, only realizing too late that their child has been abused, or neglected.

Every year, thousands of children across the country are sent to residential treatment facilities. Our team investigates the center before the child is sent to an unsafe residential treatment centers, boarding schools, and other facilities housing vulnerable teens.

Every year, thousands of children across the country are sent to residential treatment facilities and Wilderness Program may be thousands of miles away from home. Children the care of residential treatment facilities, and wilderness centers are at risk for sexual physical and emotional abuse as states fail to monitor and  track mistreatment. 

Get in touch with us

(415) 299-0924

barbaraberger85@yahoo.com

 

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