Rhode Island Office of Healthy Aging Reviews

More often, the Rhode Island DEA protective services puts elderly citizens of Rhode Island in harms way. The culprits are Mary Ann Ciano and Karen Corriea. They names are well known to elderly affairs attorneys, ACLU and the Disability law offices. Together with Tri-town and The Alliance for Better Long Term Care, they have put MORE elderly citizens in harms way. This includes placing them in over crowded dementia wards where they are verbally, mentally and physically abused. The Elderly continue to cycle in and out of the DEA protective Services system and are denied access to family members and respective agents with Power of Attorneys. The DEA protective services of Rhode Island have no governing body, none. The office of the Governor (currently Gina Raimondo) completely ignores the illegal actions taken by this agency.

Karen Correia of the DEA RI is as bad as they come. She has zero moral compass and does not care what the family or the elderly folks go through. She has put a lot of old people in nursing homes against their will. This included my aunt who wanted to live on her own. My brother had Power of Attorney and was taking care of her. My aunt even stated that my brother was very good and taking care of her nice, but this heartless person Karen Correia said no that she belonged in a nursing home and she could not be on her own. What the *** is this Nazi Germany? This person should be fired and the state of Rhode Island should find out why this is going on. I cannot believe this. I live in a different state and we never treat our elderly folks this way! It is shameful and Karen Corriea should be ashamed of yourself!!!!

I have read a recent and troubling report of what this department does and my state that it is true. They do try to take away the POA authority and try to find some abuse allegation by speaking with the elderly on their own, without legal counsel. Doesn't anyone see this as wrong. They try to coerce the elderly to file a complaint or use another agency to speak the elderly person to try to find some abuse they could use to get the family members. If they cannot find any physical abuse, they will go for financial abuses. All they while they will keep stretching and keep the elderly person under their control. This is how they operate. This is what is happening in Rhode Island.

We really feel for you! The name of the social worker is Anna Pelchat of Westerly Hospital in Rhode Island. We are forwarding you our contact information for additional investigative support. We are watch dog group that fields complaints, mainly in New England, of egregious violations from hospitals and agencies such as the DEA - Department of Elderly Affairs in Cranston Rhode Island. We are very familiar with Mary Cianto and Karen Corriea, who do nothing but instigate some false investigative proceedings against family members all the while placing their loved ones in a "black hole," hidden from view. They need to be stopped and exposed for the callous, wasteful agencies they are. In addition, your Governor Raimondo and her administration will cover up this and not respond because her reputation is on the line due to the fact that she appointed a failed politician and labor administrator Charles J. Fogarty to be Director of the Department of Elderly Affairs. Unfortunately, nothing will change in Rhode Island regards to this department and more and more elderly will fall into that "black hole." Their methods are worse than water boarding. They will try to influence the elder person that they should go into assisted living, nursing home, wherever and convince them that their family members were responsible for putting them there. Then, they will make up stories, and falsify admission records to keep the elderly person hidden away, with them as the only contact. They have done this more often than not. There are case loads of family members where their durable power of attorney was challenged. This is the America we live in. So, it is up to all of us to stand up against the tyranny that is these private hospitals and the administrators and agencies such as the Department of Elderly Affairs and expose all them by naming names and actively participating in a campaign to stop them. We are with you!

I am glad that some people are taking stand and not taking the nonsense that is the DEA of RI. You can't even get anyone on the phone. No one listens to families. They use words like "Protect" but they only "Harm." Their office is next to the state correctional facility, so that should say something, at least. Perhaps the prison environment have gone to their heads and they want to keep old people locked up. That seems to be the answer. Lock them all up. I am close to retirement and watching what my mother lose her independence and my brother who got so sick fighting with them, I am moving out of state. Good luck to all here wishing peace and happiness.

I don't understand how this place to exist. No one answers phones. Yeah, try them any time and see what I mean. I mean, don't take my word for it. Additionally, what the heck do they do anyways? I read there main job is to put old people in nursing homes. Is here a state where I can go where there is no elderly affairs? I mean, come one, who investigates them? You can't even get resources for anyone. I tried. I am a care giver. I support other older people, then why the heck would you tell us you could, dummies! First of, never trust any organization that can't pick up their own phone. Second, don't trust an organizations website because it is all a lie!