Dog Sanctuary Burns, Elderly Owner Injured in Fire

A community comes together to help one of its own following a fire that injured an 82-year-old man at this home and dog sanctuary.

The fire happened Wednesday afternoon in Oakland, Arkansas, just north of Mountain Home.

While the remains of Perry Boore’s home were smoldering the background, the day after the fire community members gathered to help continue his labor of love.

"Perry is just amazing, his heart goes out ot these animals," says Boore’s neighbor, Tim Green.

"He's willing to risk his own life, and would have had he not been stopped," he says.

Oakland-Promise Land Volunteer Fire Department Chief Lucy Soltysik says Boore turned his property into a sanctuary for abandoned dogs, years ago. At the time of the fire, she says he had roughly 120 dogs.

"He lives and breathes dogs," says Soltysik.

"[Boore] goes to Wal-Mart and gets cookies and stuff and sells them outside in the cold, the rain and the snow to support his dogs," she says.

Boore’s passion for dogs extended into his home as well. When the fire started, roughly 24 dogs were inside. While some were saved, nearly half of them died.

"I see the door burst open, and he's screaming my name and the smoke is just pouring out," says Boore’s assistant, Wendy Maher.

"He kept trying to run in there, and I said, ‘you can't go back in there’" she says.

"First thing I saw when I arrived yesterday was Perry sitting on the tailgate, badly burnt," says neighbor Tim Green, "He was still smiling, and in good spirits, but upset about the dogs."

During the fire, a number of dog pins were opened out of fear the flames might spread,.

Many of the dogs ended up in the woods, but Maher says community members searched for hours to bring them back home.

"Ever since this happened, people have been coming out left and right," she says.

The efforts of Boore’s passion have also brought in more than $7,000 in donations as of Thursday night.

However, those who know Boore say one need still remains.

"The greatest need of all is to find homes for these animals," says Green.

The local fire chief says the Boore believe the fire was started by a propane heater.

Boore is believed to have suffered serious smoke inhalation, and is currently in the hospital in stable condition. 

Cindy Mayer can't care for all of us

“Kookamonga!” Henry Radom, 86, answers the phone brightly, his opening salvo at telemarketers who are often on the other end.

Sometimes he answers “George Clooney.” Or “Godzilla.”

“Hi dad,” replies Cindy Mayer cheerfully. “I’m going to come by in a bit. Don’t disappear on me.”

She hangs up.

“He does that sometimes,” she explains, sitting in her Norwood Park living room. “Blood tests; it’s easier to take a powder.”

Mayer is a professional caregiver for Home Instead Senior Care, which pairs her with senior citizens who need help in their homes. In her spare time, she tends to her widowed, legally blind father with unrelenting good cheer.

“It’s hard to raise parents nowadays,” she says, heading over to his tidy home, about 15 minutes away in Jefferson Park. “With my dad I can have a constructive argument. It’s hard, because you can’t treat them like children. I don’t tell my dad, ‘You’re grounded. No smoking for two weeks.’ That doesn’t go very far.”

Mayer is the vanguard of a new health care front in this country. As the population ages, more and more people will be called upon to care for their elderly relatives, or, barring that, will be paid to care for strangers.

She represents an unexpected aspect of senior care.

“Most care actually occurs in the home,” said John Schall, CEO of the Caregivers Action Newtwork in Washington, D.C. “It isn’t in a hospital or medical clinic. It isn’t in nursing homes. Eighty percent of care occurs in the home. That surprises a lot of people.”

With nobody sure which wire to snip on the pension time bomb, and climate change increasingly clear, even to heretofore head-in-the-sand Republicans, I hate to add another immense social problem to the list of crises we aren’t coping with. But the elderly population is exploding. For all of human history you could view population as a pyramid, with a broad base of children, a smaller, yet substantial level element of young adults, fewer people in their prime, fewer above them in late middle age, tapering year by year to a small apex of elderly atop the pyramid.

That was the past. Now the population pyramid increasingly resembles a tower, where there are almost as many older adults as there are children. In the next 45 years, the world will add 1.1 billion people between the ages of 60 and 75, a 130 percent increase. Meanwhile, the number of children and teenagers will increase by only 9 percent.

So expect the youth culture spawned by the Baby Boom to give way to a senescent culture. Clorox has already rolled out Care Concepts, a line of medical items normally found in nursing homes — non-latex exam gloves, hand sanitizer, stain remover, germicidal non-bleach spray, disinfecting and deodorizing sprays — now marketed to private caregivers through stores, a growing business.

“If you took economic value of unpaid family care giving is $450 billion a year, twice as much as nation spends on all nursing home care and all paid in home care combined,” Schall said.

Most of us will grow old. The lucky ones will have a Cindy Mayer looking after us.

“When I’m not working, I’m trying to meet my dad,” she says,  noting how isolated older people can become at home.

“He doesn’t suffer from dementia, he suffers from LDD — long damn day,” she says. “My mom’s gone nine-and-a-half years. It was hard for him. I stayed with him a few weeks. My dad was never a social butterfly.”

“I don’t know the washer from the dryer.” her father told her.

“Dad, as long as I’m alive, you don’t need to,” Mayer replied.

Elderly people prefer home care for a variety of reasons. It’s cheaper. They’re in a familiar place. There is none of the social stresses that can make a nursing home seem like a junior high school, only with meaner cliques.

“It’s pretty much an unrecognized issue, which is surprising, given the tens of millions of people who are family caregivers,” said Schall, whose group has a website, caregiveraction.org, designed to help those caring for others.

“Families caregivers themselves don’t immediately self-identify as family caregivers. They don’t know there’s a word or a term. They think of it as just what they do for their family or loved ones.”

Well, not everybody. Mayer has tales of seniors ignored or neglected by their families.

“I have families who just want to write the check,” she says. Some don’t even want to do that. Mayer views the chance to care for her dad, who came to Chicago from Poland in the 1950s, as a blessing.

“I’m very grateful that my dad is still at home,” she says. “We don’t live too far from one another. I’m there every day, sometimes more. I help him with all his banking [and] bills. Neither of our homes look how they should be. But it’s OK. You have to laugh this stuff off.”

Mayer points out that the care she gives to her dad is the same care she gives to elderly people she visits, whether in their homes or in nursing homes.

“I’ve been in nursing homes where the residents are lined up in wheelchairs — it’s very sad,” Mayer said. “If you could just say ‘Good morning’ to somebody, that’s all, they’ll probably talk about that little interaction for the rest of the week. It’s very important, what we do. Not the best-paying job. People think it’s an easy job, but it’s not. You’re responsible for someone’s loved one. A human being.”

Firefighters help elderly woman clear driveway

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Elderly Exeter care home residents face having their mattresses taken

ELDERLY residents of Exeter care homes face having their mattresses repossessed.

An arrangement that saw Devon County Council and the NHS provide a free loan service of community equipment, such as beds, pressure care mattresses and hoists, to private sector residential and nursing homes, has been stopped.

Air pressure mattresses are used to help stop the bed-ridden from developing painful bedsores.

Care homes have been told they will be taken away in two weeks’ time. The mattresses can then be re-hired on a weekly or monthly basis – with the residents or his or her family picking up the bill.

On the open market an air-pressure mattress can cost as much as £2,000.

Among those set to lose his mattress is dementia-sufferer Geoffrey Southcott, 85, a former road worker and Exeter milkman, who has been a resident at the Dene Court Residential Home, in Butts Road, Heavitree for the past three years.

His son Mark said: “It really is awful that this should be happening and I don’t think people are aware of it. My brother Kevin went to visit our father and while at the home was handed a photocopied letter which said that Devon County Council would no longer be providing the air mattresses and they would have to be funded by the families. They have given us just two weeks notice before they come and collect them. It is incredibly short notice. People need these mattresses to stop bed sores, it’s a medical requirement and yet they are being taken away.

“What happens to those who cannot afford them? My dad’s savings are right down as it is. We are talking £500 a week.”

He added: “He has been there three years and we are very happy with the care he receives at Dene Court but they are caught in the middle of this.

“I understand that there are seven residents out of 24 at Dene Court who use air mattresses.”

A spokeswoman at Dene Court said: “It seems we will be able to hire them back on a weekly or monthly basis but that cost will have to fall on the residents and their families.

“They are medically required but of course we are a care home, not a nursing home. We have tried to get them on prescription but it is not possible.”

With all Devon care homes borrowing as much as £750,000 worth of care equipment at any one time from Devon Community Equipment Service – equipment that was often not being returned at the end of the loan period – the county say the level of expenditure was jeopardising the future of the service and could not be sustained.

A spokesman for the council, which jointly commissions the service with the NHS, said: “The problem is that homes were not honouring the temporary nature of the loans, and were often keeping the equipment to use with residents other than those it was issued to.”

“It’s meant that the service, which has a primary function to provide care equipment to people in their own homes, was effectively giving equipment away to care homes, when those homes should be making their own longer term arrangements to buy or hire the equipment they need for their residents.”

Authorities Seek Public's Help in Finding Elderly Stanley Man

The Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office is asking for the public’s help in locating 85-year-old Fulton Walton Byrum, Jr., who was reported missing yesterday (February 3).
Deputies responded to a residence on Cedar Brook Court in Stanley Tuesday night at about 11 p.m. after a family member reported Mr. Byrum, Jr. missing. Mr. Byrum, who is in good health, was en route to a friend’s house on Lake Wylie Road to play bluegrass music, but he never showed up. Mr. Byrum called family members around 8:30 p.m. and said he was lost. The call pinged off a cell phone tower on West Shopton Road in Charlotte.
Mr. Byrum is described as a white male with gray hair and blue eyes. He is approximately six feet tall. Family members say he usually wears jeans or work pants and a tee shirt. He was driving a beige 2014 Honda Civic with North Carolina license tag CME- 4068.

He has been entered in National Crime Information Center database as a missing person. The Lincoln Co. Sheriff’s Office has filed for a Silver Alert to be issued. 

Elderly Glen Cove couple robbed of life savings by men offering landscaping help

GLEN COVE (WABC) --
Police are investigating a robbery on Long Island that stripped an elderly couple of their life savings.

Michele Angrisano and his wife say the suspects arrived with walkie talkies offering help, acting like they had known the couple for years. But instead, the men stole more than money.

"He said, 'Hi, grandpa, how are you?'" Angrisano said. "I said, 'OK, how are you? What can I do for you?' He said 'I want to show you in the back.'"

It started out so innocently, as the man led Angrisano into the backyard of the Glen Cove home, presumably to show him why he should trim some of his trees. The other suspect led his wife into the backyard, too.

"My wife with the other guy," Angrisano said. "He take her by the hand to the back. I said to my wife, 'Why don't you stay inside? Why do you come out here?' 'He said I need to come out here. I come.'"

After the men left, Angrisano checked his closet where he kept a safe containing his entire life savings, around $50,000.

"When I open, I see the clothes gone," he said. "And I open the side, I don't see the safe. I go outside and tell her the safe is gone."

The couple's daughter, Grace Cipriano, says it breaks her heart that all of her father's hard-earned money from working years as a custodian and landscaper is now gone. The family moved from Italy back in 1973.

But, she says, at least they're OK.

"I keep thinking about what could have happened," she said. "And I thank God what could have happened didn't happen, and they're still here safe and sound with me."

Police are actively investigating.

"What we're doing now is reaching out to the community for any tips," Glen Cove police lieutenant John Nagle said. "We're trying to find out what kind of car they were using. We're trying to find out any possible plate number. So that's where the investigation is going right now."

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