California Elder Abuse Lawyer Blog

I was heartened to read this article in our local paper regarding a group seniors in a local mobile home park who look after one another. Called the "Silver Circle", each member of the group is responsible one day a week to call seniors in their park who live alone each night to make sure they are alright. What a fabulous idea. I remember when my grandmother, Ruth, lived at Leisure Village, she and another friend called each other each morning and evening at a time certain. They had an agreement: If the call didn't call, something was wrong. Help would be summoned. This provided a great deal of comfort to my grandmother knowing that if something happened during the night, if she had fallen and became ill and could not get to a phone, she would be discovered within hours if her friend did not receive her scheduled call. The Silver Circle expands on that idea and surely brings the same measure of comfort to this community of elders.