CCHR Launches Campaign to Reduce Involuntary Examinations of Seniors in Florida
Aug 17, 2016
Launching a campaign to help protect the elderly from abuse under the mental health law in Florida, CCHR, is hosting a workshop on Advanced Mental Health Directives on Sunday, August 21 at 2pm at the center located in downtown Clearwater.
Clearwater, United States - August 16, 2016 /PressCable/ —
The Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR), a non-profit mental health watchdog dedicated to the eradication of abuses committed under the guise of mental health, launched a campaign to educate senior citizens on their rights under the Baker Act in the hope of reducing unnecessary involuntary examinations of the elderly in Florida.
In honor of National Senior Citizens Day, CCHR is launching a campaign to help protect the elderly from abuse under the mental health law in Florida with a workshop on Advanced Mental Health Directives on Sunday, August 21 at 2pm at the center located in downtown Clearwater.
An advance directive is a written document expressing a person’s wishes for treatment, services and other assistance they want during a mental health crisis. This document is a clear statement of the person’s medical treatment preferences and can also be used to grant legal decision-making authority to another person until the crisis is over.
“When government insurance coverage for electroconvulsive therapy takes effect, 65-year-olds receive 360 percent more ECT treatment than 64-year-olds in the United States,” stated Diane Stein, President of CCHR Florida. “With studies showing that ECT shortens the lives of elderly people significantly it is our duty to educate senior citizens on their rights and help them to put in place advance directives that will ensure their treatment wishes are honored.”
CCHR will be hosting a weeklong open house following the Advanced Mental Health Directive Workshop on August 21st and for more information on the workshop, the open house or the protection of elder rights under the mental health law please call 727-442-8820.
About Citizens Commission on Human Rights:
Initially established by the Church of Scientology and renowned psychiatrist Dr. Thomas Szasz in 1969, CCHR’s mission is to eradicate abuses committed under the guise of mental health and enact patient and consumer protections.
It was L. Ron Hubbard, the founder of Scientology, who brought the terror of psychiatric imprisonment to the notice of the world. In March 1969, he said, “Thousands and thousands are seized without process of law, every week, over the ‘free world’ tortured, castrated, killed. All in the name of ‘mental health.’”
After discovering that 55 percent of foster children in Florida had been prescribed powerful mind-altering psychotropic drugs, CCHR documented the abuse to the health department which initiated changes that led to a 75 percent reduction in prescriptions for children under six.
Considered a potentially abusive, marketing tool for psychiatrists, CCHR Florida led the charge that got “Teen Screen”, mental health screening of school children, banned from Pinellas County schools in 2005. For more information visit, www.cchrflorida.org
SOURCES:
http://www.cchr.org/cchr-reports/elderly-abuse/introduction.html
For more information, please visit http://www.cchrflorida.org/
Contact Info:
Name: Diane Stein
Email: [email protected]
Organization: Citizens Commission on Human Rights of Florida
Address: 109 N. Fort Harrison Ave
Phone: 727-442-8820
Release ID: 128252
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