Mark and Carol Fairall - Elder Justice Advocates

 

Mark was forced in retirement from his bank manager career, at 43, because of a stroke. Carol ended her restaurant management career, at 57, because of a needed liver transplant. After we retired we met at our senior living facility, Sun Grove Resort Village (SGRV). We saw the abuse and corruption there and we fought for the rights of our fellow senior residents. Our fight against elder abuse and senior financial exploitation has mushroomed into our being Elder Justice Advocates. The US Senate – Special Committee on Aging had us post our story about the SGRV elder abuse story and about the SGRV 66 elder abuse cases, 36 seniors have died with no justice. SGRV’s problems started with being involved in a Ponzi scheme and the 20 out-of-state owners who lost $4.5 million on their SGRV investment.

We reported the SGRV Elder Abuse and Financial Exploitation Crimes to the Peoria Police and the Arizona Attorney General. However, the Arizona Law Enforcement failed to interview the SGRV abused victims and failed to discover that the manager of SGRV, Scott Green, was a confessed 2005 Medicare Fraud Felon that made his living scamming the elderly and government. Scott Green was terminated on 08/28/12 but the SGRV crimes of false advertising, baseless lawsuits, and imposter nurse continues today. We presented our documentation to the California Court concerning the mastermind of the Oakdale Heights/AREI Ponzi scheme, James Koenig. That Ponzi scheme defrauded 2,000 investors of $250 million and hurt over 2,500 seniors that were living in the 23 senior living centers destroyed in the Ponzi scheme. Based upon our evidence the judge recently sentenced James Koenig to 43 years in jail. The California judge said this was more than the money but it was elder abuse.

We speak from experience after being abused and seeing many seniors abused and financially exploited. We teach classes and write articles as THE REAL FACES OF ELDER ABUSE. Our emphasis is on how to avoid being a victim of elder abuse and fraud. Elder Abuse and Senior Fraud has become epidemic and the CRIME OF THE 21^ST CENTURY with a senior being abused in the US every five seconds. We teach that the key to stopping elder abuse is to prevent it before it happens with knowledge. We write a daily Facebook “Mark Fairall” sharing elder abuse stories, new senior protection law ideas, and tips on senior scams. Finally, we present new senior protection law ideas to our state and federal lawmakers.

 

Mark has been recognized in 2013 by COVINGTON’S WHO’S WHO for his civic volunteer activities. Carol was the runner-up for ARIZONA AARP’S 2013 Andrus Community Service Award. Carol recently received and letters from President Obama and the US Department of Health and Human Services thanking her for her volunteer work and wishing her better health.

 

Carol Fairall teaching about elder abuse prevention.

 

Mark and Carol Fairall



Carol Fairall facing liver rejection due to her
exposure to the toxic black mold at SGRV.

PLEASE CONSIDER GIVING TO THE CAROL FAIRALL FUND RAISER WHICH IS POSTED ONLINE TO HELP PAY FOR HER MEDICAL EXPENSES.

THE HELP CAROL FAIRALL FUND RAISER IS AT:

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April is National Donate Life Month - Arizona Information

 

 

By: Mark and Carol Fairall

April 18, 2014

 

PRESS RELEASE

To: DAILY NEWS SUN - SUN CITY WEST NEWSPAPER

 

APRIL IS NATIONAL DONATE LIFE MONTH

 

National Donate Life Month (NDLM) was instituted in 2003 and is celebrated every April. The NDLM has many state and national activities in April to register organ donors that can give the “GIFT OF LIFE.” The Donate Life Flag is flown in April over hospitals, transplant centers, and all recovery agencies in order to make a visible and unified statement about the importance of organ donations and to show the dire need for organ donors.

 

On March 31, 2014 President Barack Obama issued the Presidential Proclamation stating: “I call upon health care professionals, volunteers, educators, government agencies. Faith-based and community groups, and private organizations to join forces to boost the number of organ and tissue donors throughout our Nation.”  President Obama also stated that more than 120,000 Americans are on the transplant list but 18 of them die every day waiting. Every donor can save eight lives thanks to scientific advances. Lastly, the President urged the Public visit www.organdonor.gov or sign up in your State’s donor registry. The President stated: “As a Nation, let us shine a light on the power of donation. Let us lift up the friends and families of donors and remember those who ensured that in their death, others received life.”

 

Some organ donation facts from DONATE LIFE AMERICA are:

 

1.  An average of 79 organ transplants take place every day in the United States

2.  Over 46,000 patients had their sight restored last year through corneal transplants.

3.  A living donor can provide a kidney or a portion of their liver, lung, pancreas or intestine.

4.  More than a million tissue transplants are performed every year and the need is rising.

5.  As of June 2013, over 112 million people (46%) of the US adult population are registered as organ donors.

6. Every major religion in the United States supports organ donations as the highest expression of generosity and compassion.

7.  There is no cost to the donor’s family or estate for organ donations.

 

DONATE LIFE AMERICA is a non-profit organization which can be found online at www.donatelife.net .

 

Recent statistics from the USA TODAY show that Arizona is ranked the third lowest organ donor state in the nation at 17.2%.  The top organ donors’ states are: Colorado – 64.4%, Iowa – 62.8%, Montana 62.4%, Washington – 56.7%, and Wyoming – 55.4%. The worst organ donors’ states are:  New York – 11.1%, Michigan – 12.7%, Arizona – 17.2%, California – 25.5%, and Kentucky – 25.9%. It is difficult to get an organ transplant in Arizona because the supply of organs are so low.

 

Last year we attended the DONATE LIFE EVENT at the Arizona State Capitol. We had the honor to meet the “THANKSGIVING MOM” and listened to her story of love. Her only daughter had died in an automobile accident and her organs were used to save the lives of six people. Those six transplant recipients celebrate Thanksgiving with her every year honoring her daughter for giving them the “Gift of Life.” The Thanksgiving mom stated that she knows her daughter is in Heaven but she is so blessed because she feels her presence every Thanksgiving when the people her daughter saved celebrate the holiday together.

 

Organ donation is a subject near and dear to our hearts since Carol received her transplanted liver in October, 2007 at Banner Good Samaritan Hospital. Carol is very active mentoring organ donors and raising awareness and funds for this worthwhile cause. We urge all Arizonans’ to mark the Organ Donor box on their Driver’s License and share life.

Submitted on 04/18/14 by:

 

 

Mark and Carol Fairall

Founders of THE REAL FACES OF ELDER ABUSE

Mark and Carol live in Sun City West. They are active in the community by volunteer teaching classes in the West Valley about Arizona Travel and Elder Abuse Prevention. The Fairalls also write columns and newspaper articles about elder abuse information and prevention.