{"id":215826,"date":"2026-04-02T09:52:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T09:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/215826\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T09:52:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T09:52:12","slug":"has-florida-placed-you-or-your-loved-one-in-an-elder-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/215826\/","title":{"rendered":"Has Florida placed you or your loved one in an elder home?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"responsive-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_DCF_2_1_7BM0QFBN_L712108722.JPG\"   width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" title=\"A Miami Herald investigation found that Florida\u2019s Adult Protective Services program can strip seniors of their autonomy, their home and their dignity.\" alt=\"A Miami Herald investigation found that Florida\u2019s Adult Protective Services program can strip seniors of their autonomy, their home and their dignity.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>        A Miami Herald investigation found that Florida\u2019s Adult Protective Services program can strip seniors of their autonomy, their home and their dignity.<\/p>\n<p>            Miami Herald File<\/p>\n<p>Each year, thousands of elderly and disabled people across Florida are deemed by social service workers to be incapable of caring for themselves, pulled from their homes and sent to live in assisted living facilities.<\/p>\n<p>A Miami Herald investigation found that Florida\u2019s adult protective services program can strip seniors of their autonomy, their home and their dignity. Largely operating without judicial oversight, the program can place seniors in assisted living facilities with long records of health violations without the knowledge of friends and caregivers.<\/p>\n<p>The Herald is asking Floridians with first-hand experience to contact us and share your stories to help us better understand how this affects families.<\/p>\n<p>Can\u2019t see the form below? <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"Follow nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/e\/1FAIpQLScZWT6kibNhhuPwEQZLd_KpPj6yqu2nkv7ybZVVWOxPH67L5w\/viewform?usp=sharing&amp;ouid=115362147779113452514\">Click here to fill it out<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>  Loading\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Miami Herald investigation found that Florida\u2019s Adult Protective Services program can strip seniors of their autonomy, their&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":215827,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-215826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215826\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}