Elaine Healy, a geriatric medical specialist, argued that former President Joe Biden is showing “telltale signs of elder abuse,” which she described as a “disturbingly common” epidemic in the United States.
In an opinion piece published in the New York Post, Healy revealed that she referred the former president to the Adult Protective Services Division of Delaware’s Department of Health and Social Services as a likely elder-abuse victim. She named former First Lady Jill Biden, the former president’s physician, Dr. Kevin O’Connor, and former Biden chief of staff Jeffrey Zients as possible perpetrators.
Healy pointed to a number of recent stories surrounding the former president in making her argument, including his recent cancer diagnosis, snippets from Special Counsel Robert Hur’s Special Counsel interview, and the new book from CNN’s Jake Tapper and Axios’ Alex Thompson, “Original Sin,” which details the former president’s cognitive decline and the effort to cover it up from staffers.
The former president’s office announced Sunday that Biden had been diagnosed with an “aggressive” form of prostate cancer. With a Gleason Score of nine, the former president’s cancer is more likely to spread and expand.
The diagnosis has sparked intense debate, as several urology experts have stated that prostate cancer should have been easy to detect given Biden’s routine checkups. Dr. David Shusterman, a board certified urological surgeon who teaches urology to up-and-coming physicians, speculated that Biden could have had cancer for several years.
Shusterman recalled his experience working in VA hospitals, stating that Biden’s diagnosis is consistent any patient who “hasn’t had medical attention in 10 years, presents to an emergency room with bone pain, and then they find that it’s metastatic prostate cancer.”
This, along with the well documented cognitive decline displayed by the former president, leads Healy to believe Biden “was, and likely still is, being victimized.”
“Visible bruising and other injuries from physical violence are obvious forms of abuse. Non-violent actions — like deprivation of food, causing weight loss, or intimidation, causing social withdrawal and personality changes — are also defined as abusive behavior,” the geriatric medical specialist wrote.
“A more sinister type of elder abuse, however, involves the exploitation of an elderly individual for the abuser’s financial, personal or — in this case — political gain.”
Healy went on to argue that it “seems apparent that those closest to Joe Biden, people upon whom he was and remains dependent, usurped the power and authority of his office for their own benefit, while professionals who had a duty to protect him failed to do so.”
In addition to the aforementioned examples, Healy highlighted an infamous post-debate moment in which Jill Biden could be seen physically guiding her frail husband off the stage.
“What was behind her insistence that he run for office when she, above all others, had to be aware of his failing cognitive capacities and declining physical health?” Healy continued. “Is she a loving spouse or a master manipulator, using his dependency on her to control his decision-making? If the latter, she is engaged in elder abuse.”
The geriatric MD echoed similar sentiments expressed by others in the medical field, many of whom have been baffled by the lack of detection given Biden’s round-the-clock access to state of the art preventative care.
“How could a physician issue a clean bill of health for someone so obviously suffering from dementia, condoning the pursuit of another four-year stint in the most cognitively challenging job on the planet? How could any clinician fail to diagnose prostate cancer when it was still in an early, potentially curable stage?” she continued.
“Either Dr. Kevin O’Connor failed to practice medicine at the professional standard of care, or he has actively participated in a cover-up — in which case he, too, was involved in elder abuse.”
