Despite your best efforts to make an informed placement for your loved one or family member, bad things can happen to your resident.   The stories below of elder abuse perpetrated, or allegedly perpetrated by owners and employees of RCFEs in our community are convincing proof that you cannot just place your family member, then walk away.  

CARR is pleased to announce it will be conducting two workshops through Oasis.  Oasis is a 40 year old national not-for-profit dedicated to promoting live-long learning, health living, and social engagement.  We are particularly pleased that Oasis has incorporated CARR's workshop into their spring class catalog. 

The Mt. Echo continued its coverage Tuesday (see below) of on-going interest in investigating Community Care Licensing (CCL) Division’s alleged misconduct regarding its failure to close down an unlicensed RCFE owned by Barbara Hockman; a supervisor (Donna Teutshel) who allegedly refused to sign a $20,000 civil penalty against Hockman for her unlicensed facility;  and thwarting a state inspector’s attempts to contact Department of Justice to have an unusual death investigated.

San Luis Obispo's KCBX Public Radio station, (serving California's Central Coast, from Salinas to Santa Barbara) spotlighted both Chrisy Selder's children's book, "When You're Older", and CARR itself in an interview with Katherine Johnson, host of  KCBX's Issues & Idea's.  Host Johnson engaged Chrisy in conversation not only about the book and CARR, but about the larger issues confronting families wanting to make an informed assisted living placement decision.