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They say getting old ain’t for sissies. Boy, they’re not kidding.     Especially in a state that has essentially abandoned its task of protecting old people in the very facilities and hospitals where they need the greatest care. Last October, Gov. Schwarzenegger “saved” taxpayers $3.8 million a year by cutting all the state’s funding to the Ombudsman program, which exists in every county using mostly volunteers to visit nursing home patients and check out abuse and neglect complaints. The idea was that since the Health Department already does yearly inspections, that’s good enough. Yeah, right. Aside from the fact that all state departments are strapped for people and money making even minimal inspections a tall order, yearly inspections just don’t cut it. It wasn’t a routine state inspection that uncovered a nursing home in the Kern River Valley where patients were being drugged to “keep them...
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