Vulnerable Adults
Council House rents independent-living apartments to senior citizens. The building does not classify as a nursing home and may not by law house vulnerable adults. The term “vulnerable adults” means people sixty years of age or older who have the functional, mental, or physical inability to care for themselves.
To insure full occupancy and increased income, the directors consistently rent apartments to vulnerable adults to their detriment and to the discomfort and danger of people living independently. Moreover, both managers and elitist tenants discriminate against them because of their infirmities. That classifies as elder abuse. Elder abuse consists of willful action or inaction that inflicts injury, unreasonable confinement, intimidation, or punishment.
Moreover administrators exploit them by compelling or exerting undue influence over them to perform services that benefit managers. That financial exploitation has led to the illegal or improper use of the property, income, resources, or trust funds of a vulnerable adult by others.
At least two vulnerable adults have died at Council House from neglect and abuse and the directors have had four other independent tenants incarcerated. They have since covered up the deaths. In one case the victim’s family and a Council House administrator benefitted financially by defrauding both federal and state agencies prior to her death and by disposing of her assets. Several more tenants remain at risk and suffer daily abuse at the hands of administrators.
Abuse of people unable to express or demonstrate physical harm, pain, or mental anguish presumes those conditions. Mental abuse means any willful action or inaction not limited to coercion, harassment, inappropriately isolating a person from family, friends, or regular activity, and verbal assault that includes ridiculing, intimidating, yelling, or swearing.
Incarcerating them without due process of law or the involvement of qualified physical or mental health counselors ranks as ultimate abuse. If someone dies as a result of elder abuse then that ranks as homicide by abuse. Homicide ranks as a class A felony punishable by a maximum sentence of life imprisonment in a state correctional institution or by a fine of fifty thousand dollars or both. [Homicide by Abuse]
Neglect means a pattern of conduct or inaction by a person or entity with a duty of care that fails to provide the goods and services that maintain physical or mental health or fail to avoid or prevent physical or mental harm or pain. This includes omission and disregard which constitutes a clear and present danger to the person’s health, welfare, or safety.
People with disabilities require the services of several state departments as well as those of the community. Those services need planning along a continuum with facilities and services established and designated for the purpose. Those plans must meet the needs of each person with a disability regardless of age or degree of handicap and at each stage of the person's development.
State of Washington authorizes and coordinates state services for persons with disabilities. It cooperates with communities to encourage the establishment and development of services through locally administered and locally controlled programs. Council House does not classify as one of those programs yet rents apartments to vulnerable adults totally incapable of caring for themselves.
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