It evolved into bewildering and disturbing revelations about the dark underbelly of retirement communities, elder abuse, and grossly negligent agency oversight.

I am a mental health professional with a disablity, living in a Southern California Life Plan Retirement Community. When I blew the whistle on discrimination and elder abuse, the CEO used her knowledge of my disability to attack me. I found myself in a California Civil Rights Department being coerced into choosing between my fair housing assistance animal rights and my 1st amendment rights.

This true life story became the perfect storm - a disabled senior, an abused centenarian, a powerful “five-star-brand” retirement community that will protect their brand at all costs, the largest Civil Rights Department in the country, a negligent Los Angeles County Department of Public Health and California Department of Public Health, - and the attorney “godfather of senior living.”