Horror story of woman taken advantage of at Anchor Care

[Opti]

Made me think of DQ and her grandma's drama. I hope they have to pay her back for everything taken plus pain and suffering.


www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/she-says-she-spent-months-in-a-fog-in-a-nursing-home-when-she-left-everything-she-owned-was-gone/ar-AA10oVhP?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=54b3638e527a434eb4176bf50e468cf7

After returning home last year following a months-long stay at Anchor Care & Rehabilitation in Hazlet, the 67-year-old retiree said she discovered her house in Keyport had been emptied.



Gone were her treasured family photo albums. So was a turquoise box with crystal rosary beads given to her by her parents when she was 7 years old. A collection of CDs and her jewelry were all missing. Her bank accounts had been cleared out.

According to the court filing, Araneo’s nightmare began after she became ill and entered Hackensack Meridian Health Riverview Medical Center in Red Bank for treatment of a number of medical issues, including hypomagnesemia and acute kidney failure.



Following an 11-day stay at the hospital, Araneo, who lives alone, was admitted to Anchor Care in February 2021 for what she expected to be a short-term period rehabilitation. She then had hoped to be discharged home not long afterward, the lawsuit stated.



During those first few weeks at the nursing home, Araneo said an Anchor Care employee “repeatedly suggested that she should destitute herself, enroll on Medicaid,” and move into the nursing home for the remainder of her life.

According to a lawsuit filed in Superior Court in Monmouth County, she had been coerced while heavily medicated to sign what is known as a durable power of attorney agreement that essentially handed over total control of her life to someone she had never met.



The agreement gave Shmuel “Sam” Stern, who became Araneo’s “attorney-in-fact” the authority to collect monies owed on her behalf; to sell her property; conduct banking powers; manage her investments; borrow against her real estate and personal property; sell her car; conduct business in her name; prepare, file and sign tax returns on her behalf, access her safety deposit boxes, and sell any and all assets in her possession, according to the lawsuit. Stern also barred her from seeing or having any contact with family, her niece alleged.

[gacpa]

That is horrible.  They probably drugged her and then got her to sign POA.  I watched a movie on Netflix "I Care A Lot" that was about this issue.  It is scary what they get away with preying on the elderly.

[jerseygirl]

So terrible for this woman and others who were abused financially
Watching ‘Better Call Saul’ it’s about older people being heavily overcharged by their senior living complex and the main character who discovers and then prosecutes
That woman was so much more abused. Hoping that guy goes to jail

[Opti]

I'm glad she was able to arrive home before it was sold. Almost everything else is gone. 

[nidena]

Reminds me of the movie I Care a Lot which, I'm sure, is loosely based on true stories.

[NomoreDramaQ1015]

I'd believe it. While dad and I agree he fucked up and yes they should investigate the fact she is an actual paid employee of the home not an independent agent is a conflict of interest.

And that they kept offering long before to take over her finances and pushed for the sale of the house.

The individual nurses and stuff care about residents sure.

The corporations that run these places? Old people are piggy banks.

I got the bill for August. $3.86 for an ice cream social.

T
You charge nine grand a month I think you can give free ice cream!

Then they turn around and milk the government.

It's not the lady at the store using her food stamps to buy a birthday cake that's scamming your tax dollars.

It's nursing homes and that's after they rob you blind first like the OP.

[Deleted]

This story is exactly why we are setting up the estate plan with trustees from our bank. Yesterday our attorney mentioned the movie "I Care a Lot" as a truly terrifying story

[Artemis Windsong]

When in doubt, forgery is an option.  Forged from an another document  signed.

The person doesn't have to be drugged, just vulnerable.  I got caught by some unscrupulous people saying I had to sign a new fitness agreement.  It wasn't a fitness agreement.  How did I find out?  The bank called me.  I told them I'd be right there.  They said don't bother as they would take care of it.   How far they took care of the situation, I never found out.  How did the miscreants find out which bank?  A nonfriend and I were in the same bank club that had, at that time, socials.  

The miscreants went on to misappropriate from another area for 20 years.  If  I mentioned what happened, no one on here would believe me. 

[Artemis Windsong]

Another story.  My H.'s mother was in a nursing home.  A woman kept telling her she was the social worker at the place and would take care of her finances.  The so called social worker got my H. and I outside.  She knew where the cameras were.  She gave us a hard sell to which we would think it over.  H. reported her since he had talked to his Mom about her.  His Mom was more than capable of caring for her finances and had a DIL back up when she slowed up mentally.