DoctorOz: Chef Bobby Flay's Weight Loss, Unsolved Hip Hop Murders & Elder Abuse

Today, you lost 15 pounds eating foods that taste great. Yeah. Chef Bobby Flay lost weight eating burgers and brownies. You got a six-pack here. I have a two-pack, but I'm working on it. Plus, elder abuse caught on tape. My grandfather suffered numerous lacerations, cuts, bruises. How what they learn can help you keep your loved ones safe. And he killed Tupac Shakur and Biggie Smalls. Coming up next. Are you ready to save some lives today? Yeah! Are you ready to save some lives? One of the most fit in America, Bobby Flay is here. He owns seven restaurants, hosts many of your favorite cooking shows, and has built an empire around his love of eating. But what you don't know is that he recently faced a health struggle that made him question everything he knows about food. And now he's revealing for the first time ever on our show what motivated him to lose 15 pounds, how he did it deliciously, and how you can too. Please welcome Bobby Flay. I set the table. I did not fill the dishes yet. We're going to get to that. You make food. You eat food for a living. It's part of who you are. It's probably what we love about you. When did you first start realizing you had an issue with the food you're eating? It was probably about 10 years ago. I remember I was in Europe, actually, and it was New Year's Eve, and I was getting dressed to go out. And I just did what anybody would do right before they go out. I looked in the mirror, and I was like, wow, I don't like that at all. That does not look good. And I had just, I sort of lost control of my weight. And before it got really, really, really out of hand, I knew that I had to do something at that very moment. Pants were getting tight. Pants were getting tight. A couple of chins I didn't really need. How about your overall health? Any other issues that were going on that made you concerned that what was seen in the mirror was actually affecting your health? I didn't really have anything major, except I just knew that I just wasn't feeling good. it put me in a bad mood it can create obviously depression if you're not feeling good about your health and your appearances and stuff like that so I knew that I had to take action because I knew that it was going to be a lot harder to kind of shed the pounds versus put them on alright so you have the epiphany it always happens at different times in our lives yours is about to go out for a good time how do you start? I am somebody who when I put my mind to something I start basically immediately And so I knew that I had to, well, first of all, I was going to not drink as much alcohol. Well, alcohol. Yeah, definitely. Well, yeah. Listen, there's nothing wrong with a cocktail here and there. But, you know, I think that as a chef's lifestyle, the hours are very long. All the rumors are true. It's a hard job. It takes a lot of hours, 14 hours, 16 hours some days. And it's late at night. And so my routine early on when I first started cooking was we would cook until about 11, 11.30, 12 o'clock at night, and then we'd go out and eat with our friends. Oh, my. And so we would be eating, you know, fried chicken and, you know, whatever was on the menu and drink a couple of bottles of wine, and now it's 2.30 in the morning, and then you go to sleep. That is the worst thing to do, and that's one of the things I talk about. Don't eat late at night if you can help it because it obviously just sits in your stomach and it just creates lots of fat. Messes with your hormones and everything else. So I want to go through this with everybody because I want to be clear about this. This is Bobby Flay, guys, right? He makes food. It's important for you that you eat the right foods. You lost 15 pounds eating foods that taste great. Yeah. And this is critical because he's got a book called Bobby Flay Fit, and you are fit looking right now. Good, thank you. This is what the cover looks like. He looks even fitter than he looks in the cover is how he looks right now. And I want you to teach us exactly how you do that because the big challenge that most of these folks having right now is they know they need to lose weight yeah they don't want to be bored to death doing it no no of course and you know you know food is so important to me it's how i make my living and how i make my living and i want to think of food as my friend not my enemy i have to constantly eat and taste food all the time all right let's get through it we got some bike club members coming over, great, we got Jody, Rebecca and Sue, Ella, they're the judges, right over there. Oh, you're... oh, we're being judged, you're being judged, okay these are tough characters There. They might look peaceful and calm now, but believe me, they won't act up. The first thing you're going to make is a nut smoothie. This is a roasted peach and pistachio smoothie. All right, so we've got peaches, pistachios, What's that, vanilla? Just a little bit of vanilla and some cinnamon and a little bit of orange zest. We're going to put this right into our blendie here, the roasted peaches. And, like, here's the thing. I use a lot of frozen fruit. Flash frozen fruit works really well, especially for a smoothie. It's cheaper, too. Yes, exactly. Some pistachios and then a little bit of orange zest. and a little bit of vanilla, and we just... Ice or not? Yeah, put the ice in there. A little bit of water? Sure, a little bit of water, and just give this... Oh, but the peaches, we put them in earlier. Oh, did we put the peaches? Yeah, we did that already. Didn't forget, usually I forget. And we blend it up. Seconds later, you have this. Yes, exactly. Now, I will taste for the first time. Does it taste like it's supposed to taste for you? It does. Okay, Bite Club, thoughts on this? It is amazing. I never think about roasted fruit in a smoothie. I'm always thinking protein, but never in the morning when I get up and I'm thinking fruit, and this is unexpected and fabulous, and I'm going to try this at home. I give it thumbs up, too. Okay, great. I could go with the smoothie because it's fast in the morning. Yeah, you know, I love pistachio gelato, so this is a much better substitute. Yes, much better. For sure. All right, dinner time. Now, this is Bobby Flay, the king of the burger. Yeah. I've enjoyed your burgers. Thank you. This is a healthier version. I'm not going to believe I can say this. This is actually a burger with no meat in it. It is, and on my show, Beat Bobby Flay, I was challenged to make a veggie burger, and I was always sort of not into the veggie burger idea because I like a classic burger, but I had to do it. So I created a burger on the spot and actually I put it on my menus in my restaurants and people are gravitating to things that I don't have to meet them. That's basic. Well, if it tastes good, that's the challenge. So the base of this one is mushrooms, chickpeas, and quinoa. And then we bring some flavor boosters into it. Some cilantro, some chilies, some pickles, you know, things that have flavor. It's not just about, you know, fat obviously is going to bring lots of flavor, butter and cream. That makes everything taste good. But when you use things like chili peppers, things that are going to make things hot, vinegars, onions, when you really pump flavors into something, people are not going to miss the fat as much. And notice there's no bread on this burger. It's served on mustard. I'm not a mushroom eater, and this was actually, I must say, amazing. I loved it, and this is something that I would actually implement in my life. What's the taste you guys like the most? I loved the quinoa flavor because it made it like a meatier, I felt like I was eating a burger. It made it like a meaty meal. That's the key. Yeah. All right, another winner. Let's go to the last one. He insisted, insisted that we have to have a dessert. So he's throwing these brownies at me. Exactly. But these brownies are not, they're not made with butter. They're made with olive oil. With olive oil? Yes, and olive oil is used in lots of baking, especially in Europe. And it's been, they've been doing that for centuries. Oh, my goodness. And listen, olive oil has wonderful flavor. Chocolate can be really good for you, as long as there's not a ton of sugar in it, and so why not? Could olive oil be the star? Would you guys feel satisfied with your sweet tooth with this? Absolutely, yes. Yeah, and it's nice and dense, so you don't need to eat, like, a lot of chocolate to feel like you've got a chocolate-satisfying meal. Yeah, it's certainly rich enough. It's moist, and it's decadent, and my husband would never know the difference. Do you struggle with the weight now, with this diet that you're on? Oh, absolutely. I struggle all the time. You know, two of the things I did not mention to you was that besides not eating late at night, which I try to do as much as possible, when I go to a restaurant, I only eat about three-quarters of what's in front of me as opposed to everything. And that's something we all do. We just clean our plate. Take the last 25% home, eat it the next day. It makes a huge difference. 25% less caloric intake, I'm telling you, it takes a few minutes off that treadmill in the morning, and that's really important. You know, the places in the world where people live the longest, Okinawa, Japan, they have a whole cultural phrase about that. They only eat 80%. It's what they all do. Portion control. Portion control. And you just expect to leave 20% to the side because you're going to eat it the next day. You know what, Dr. Oz? What I like to say is the 12th bite isn't better than the third. It's just not. Let me tell you, you've got a six-pack. Well, I don't know. He's a six-pack here. I have a two-pack, but I'm working on it. A two-pack. Bobby and Flay Fit. There's a book. Check it out. Check out the website, by the way. Our website will have a lot of his recipes on it. But you can be as fit as Bobby if you follow his advice. We'll be right back. Thank you. Nice job, Bobby. God bless you. Instant foods. Oatmeal. Thin rice. Even pie. And we sacrificed health for speed. It's fascinating. And I couldn't believe it when I first heard it. All nuance. That's coming up tomorrow. Tupac Shakur and Biggie Smalls. They're two of the biggest names in hip-hop. And both were mysteriously gunned down just six months apart. It's the biggest unsolved mystery in music history. Today, the anatomy of a scandal. With the help of a forensic criminologist, we are recreating the moments leading up to their deaths. We have the autopsy record, and we have the science. So today, we're answering the question, Could these hip-hop legends have been saved? Reporter Michael Yeo has the story. In the 1970s, hip-hop emerged from the South Bronx, resonating as the soundtrack of the streets. By the 1980s, L.A.-based gangster rap exploded in popularity with social authenticity. Promoting an East Coast-West Coast music rivalry soon became a way for competing record labels and their unofficial affiliated gangs to build up reputations and increase record sales. Tupac Shakur on Suge Knight's Death Row Records and Biggie Smalls on Sean Combs' Bad Boy Records will become rap royalty, the faces and overwhelming bases for the bi-coastal beef. Even though the two stars started as friends, For nearly a year, tempers and tensions between the two camps flared as the rappers exchanged insults through their music and labels, threatening each other at award shows, concerts, and in interviews. September 7, 1996, Las Vegas. Tupac and his entourage are leaving a boxing match on the way to the club with Suge Knight behind the wheel. They're paused at an intersection when a white Cadillac pulls alongside their sedan and fires shots at Shakur. Tupac is hit multiple times with a .40 caliber Glock handgun. He was rushed to the hospital, but died six days later from his injuries. He was just 25 years old. Many speculated his rival, Biggie Smalls, was to blame. Biggie denied any involvement and continued to make hit records and performing to sold-out arenas. Six months later, at the age of 24, Biggie would be dead. shot to death March 9, 1997, in Los Angeles after an awards show. Witnesses claim the driver of an Impala rolled down his window, drew a 9mm pistol, and fired at Biggie's SUV, hitting him four times while he sat in the passenger seat. Biggie was rushed to the hospital and pronounced dead at 1.15 a.m. To this day, both murders, with their striking similarities, remain unsolved. For two decades, countless theories have surrounded their untimely deaths. Today, who really killed Tupac Shakur and Biggie Smalls? Reporter Michael Yeo joins me now. Why, why, why is the public still so invested in these murders all these years later? Well, rap wasn't a lifestyle back then in the 90s. Rap was, you know, a very niche audience. I loved rap music. When Tupac and Biggie died, I was devastated. But it was niche. it was East Coast versus West Coast. You got to remember, Tupac was a showman. He was an actor. He was in a pop rap group first called Digital Underground. And then he became a gangster rapper. So I think Pac was the showman where Biggie was kind of like, I want to make music. I want to go home and live a great life. So those two collided. Media jumped in, East Coast versus West Coast. And then the streets got involved. And that's when it got dangerous. Now, I think it's so big today is because it's easy to get music, Dr. Oz. You know, so kids are still hearing Biggie and Tupac listening to it and things they said in the songs are still relevant today on the streets. You all know there's probably been endless speculation, countless conspiracy theories about how and why these two men were killed under such suspicious circumstances. So you're an expert as Michael. Break it down for us. Give us the most popular theories out there. Two of the big popular theories. First, Suge Knight. He owned Death Row Records, a label that Pac was signed to. A lot of people are saying that Pac wanted to leave the label and that they were feuding a lot. And Pac and his music always talked about dying. So a lot of people are speculating that Suge was like, OK, I can kill him, make money off his death, and he can't go to another record label and be competition. Like none of these have been proven, but that's speculation out there. Pretty nefarious. Yeah, absolutely. And what about the thought that these were gang killings? Well, there is a big rumor that Biggie paid $1 million to have Pac knocked off. because they were always feuding and uh Pac Pac was actually involved with Faith Evans a person he dated and was married to so a lot of people were saying that could have happened and but nothing's been proven on that either it's just a bunch of unanswered questions and nobody wants to come forward and talk about it other really out of left field rumored that Tupac was still alive yes now that was ridiculous when I heard that 2012 a photo came out of him and Rihanna and of course a couple weeks later they found it to be photoshopped and a lot of people saying he just moved to Cuba instead of he faked his death and moved to Cuba with his son I wish it was that easy but there are continuous additional rumors it doesn't stop it keeps coming and so up next a forensic criminologist weighs in we're going to unravel the never before seen details leading up to these shootings and asking the question it's a big question could Biggie or Tupac have been saved of horrors 13 siblings Chained to their beds, beaten and starved What's next for the 13 kids? A Dr. Oz special report That's coming up on Tuesday Today, the anatomy of a scandal We're taking a scientific and forensic look at the mysterious deaths of rap icons Tupac Shakur and Biggie Smalls Crimes that changed the music industry forever And they remain unsolved even to this day Over two decades ago, both men were gunned down, six months apart, in their cars While parked at traffic intersections So what do we need to uncover in order to be able to finally solve these murders? We need to know the motives. And to do that, I feel like we have to know more about who the killers could be. So there's a way of doing this, just to bring in people that are experts in forensics. So come on over. We're going to break down what we actually know. And criminologist Dr. Laura Petler is going to help us. And she's a forensic criminologist, which really gives her the gusto. Thank you for being here. Thank you for having me. So she has recreated in front of us both crime scenes in our crime lab here. We've got Tupac's murder here and Biggie's murder here. Two events based six months apart. But as I look at them, they seem eerily similar. I see intersections, cars heading into them. That's what the papers are reporting. Right. And Dr. Oz, they are, at first glance, very similar looking. They both are outdoors. They're both on busy roads. They're both at traffic lights. And both victims are waiting for the red light to turn green. So there are lots of similarities. But you're a world expert at this as a forensic criminologist. So what do you see that we don't see when you look at these cases? So many things. Tupac's murder is very, very different from Biggie's. So let's start with Tupac's and go through that. When we're talking about Tupac's murder, first, it's important to recognize that Tupac was at an event that evening. And then after he left the event, he was going to perform at a nightclub that was down the road. so he went back and he got ready and about three hours later he finds himself here at this stoplight he has his entourage behind him and Tupac is seated in the passenger seat of this first car as they're waiting for the red light to turn green a car full of girls pulls up onto the left side of Tupac's car Tupac and the girls and people in the car they all start talking to each other flirting with each other and and just having a really good time he's inviting them to come to the to see him perform as this is all going on a white late model Cadillac begins to very very eerily creep up and sneak up on Tupac's car passing the other two vehicles and gets into this area here and begins firing ended up firing 12 to 14 rounds into Tupac's car impacting Tupac's body at least six times and what's interesting is then this car makes the getaway so it's perfect that seems first of all it's only half the bullets hit its target that's right so it's very very interesting that from this perspective you have this car shooting the window goes down the driver's side window goes down the shooter takes the gun puts it outside the window and starts shooting through the front driver's side window there's a large distribution of bullets going all across the side of this car this looks like a very inexperienced shooter it doesn't look like someone that has planned this it doesn't look like something that has a lot of a lot of characteristics of something that's well organized how does that change the way you look at Tupac's death when i first heard about the death i thought it was a hired hit i thought it was professional But looking at this, it looked like it was an accident. The girls even pulled up to him. It's like a coincidence. And these guys almost were like, oh, there he is. Perfect opportunity. It almost feels like it's revenge. It's getting back. It's a bunch of anger in this. It's not planned. And they'd had a fight earlier in the evening. So that sort of fits that a little bit. Yes, there was a fight earlier that evening. When Tupac was at MGM, he got into a fight in the lobby with another individual. So there was preceding conflict right before the death, within three hours of his death. And it has been said that was this car full of girls a distraction? Was it intentionally, you know, set up like this to distract him? It's not characteristic in their culture, in this type of culture, to set someone up. They go in, they shoot, they leave. And by the way he shot, I mean, these people were in danger too. Absolutely, and why are you going to put yourself in the path of the bullet? All right, let's compare this to Biggie Smalls. Six months later, again, layman in this regard, I'm at an intersection. Yes. You've got Biggie, B's the Biggie. Okay, so what's going down? So what happens is, is that let's just kind of start back here. Biggie is at an event this evening, and he then leaves because the party after party gets shut down. So they pull out from the event. Two suburbans basically pull out, or SUVs. They pull up to this light. It's yellow, and the first car goes and parks over here, the first car of his entourage. Biggie pulls up here. This black Impala comes alongside, and as Biggie's sitting at the light, the black Impala comes up and stops. The driver is also the shooter in this case, and this shooter is precise, and he shoots straight into the passenger side of the car, impacting Biggie. Now, it looks like he shot about six times, and Biggie was shot. Actually, he was hit four times. Oh, let's start with Tupac Shakur. I actually have the last photo of him, there he is, right before his death. So, Laura, take us through what happened that evening. So, to set the foundation for this, in Tupac's case, it was a frenzied attack. It was spontaneous. It was emotional. And like Michael mentioned, it was angry. It doesn't take 12 bullets to kill somebody, Dr. Oz. It takes one. But they fired 12 times. So it was like, I don't know which one of these bullets is going to hit you, but one of them is going to hit you. it's an inexperienced shooter these the shape of that bullet hole right there is so interesting because it shows that the shooter is precisely perpendicular to the car door he's shooting it's like a sharpshooter he's a trained shooter he's a marksman this is very calculated he's calm he's put together he's not it's not an excitable situation at all and it looks like he knows he only wants to hit one person in that car absolutely not anyone else it's a purposeful targeted victim Both of them are targeted victims, but this one is more consistent with contract. All right, so I did some digging. I wanted to actually see the autopsy reports. And so my team was able to pull this out. This is actually the autopsy report, 23 pages long, on Biggie Smalls. Now, here's the thing. A verified autopsy report has never been released for Tupac Shakur. Right. Think about that. Makes you wonder, doesn't it, everybody? Up next, could Biggie Smalls have been saved? What his autopsy report tells us. And when we come back, we've got all that. Don't go away. Instant foods. Oatmeal. Instant rice. Even pasta. Have we sacrificed health for speed? It's fascinating. And I couldn't believe it when I first heard it. All nuance. That's coming up tomorrow. Back with reporter Michael Yeo and forensic criminologist Dr. Laura Petler unraveling the death of Tupac Shakur and Biggie Smalls. And when it comes to Tupac, no autopsy has been released. I'll say it again. There is no autopsy for us to look at. My team tried to obtain it. We couldn't. To me, I've got to say, it is sort of strange that he died six days after a gunshot wound. Usually, if he's shot, you stop the bleeding, and then that's it. In his case, what I'm being told indirectly is he bled, but later. And I know he was trying to leave the hospital, so the whole thing is a bit strange to me. He was sedated. He was in a sedated coma to keep him calm. So, that's Tupac. But Biggie's case is a little different. In Biggie's case, we were able to get his autopsy report, and we got asked a question. Could he have been saved? So how long after Biggie was shot did he pass? He died within about an hour, Dr. Oz. Died within about an hour. So let's go through what happened. In his autopsy report, and I pulled these up, there's actually pictures in here of exactly how it happened. But I actually made this little illustration that I think might be more beneficial to you. So this is the human body, and let's focus in on the part of the body that we care the most about, which is his chest. So the entry point was down around the right hip, and it exited up by the left shoulder, went through here. So you might think, how does that happen? So you sort of have to rotate the diagram like this, which is sort of a strange way for a bullet to go. So Laura, why would the bullet progress in this kind of a weird trajectory? Because when the shooter began shooting into the car, it's natural human instinct to try to get away from the attack. So Biggie leaned over toward the driver, which put his body in a position for the driver to have, the bullet to have impacted from his hip going up to his shoulder so if he hadn't shied away crazily he might have survived maybe more lateral it could have been it might have been lower but it still could have caused multiple organ damage as this one did too well this is the the perfect shot again pointing out the fact this was not a crime of passion because this bullet just to show you what happened went through the hip through this structure which is the colon that's the gall bladder there that's the liver liver is a big organ went right through the liver and they kept going north. Now, if you look north of the liver, there's the diaphragm, but then there's this structure, which is a really important one, the heart, right there. And if I rotate this forward so you get your bearings back again, you'll see what was going down. It went through the heart, which led to a lot of bleeding, obviously, because the heart's pumping a couple liters a minute, through this lung and then up into the left upper part of his chest, up where the shoulder is. That's a lot of organs, a colon, a liver, a diaphragm, the heart itself, the lungs. There's a lot of organs hurt at once, which makes it devastating. So I've got to say from a medical perspective, there is no way, no way you could have stopped that much internal hemorrhaging from a bullet. And what's fascinating to me is you should see these two stories. And I realized how different they really are, which Michael picked me to the issue of the public. Will they ever stop trying to figure out what happened to these folks? No, because these are the two biggest rap icons and they're timeless. Everybody always references them. If you're a rapper or in music so they'll never go away. And that's one thing I'm very happy about because they meant a lot to me growing up. Thank you both for being here. Thank you. We'll be right back. A house of horrors. 13 siblings chained to their beds, beaten and starved. What's next for the 13 kids? A Dr. Oz special report. That's coming up on Tuesday. I want to warn you, what you're about to see is disturbing and it will shock you. Hidden cameras have revealed the unthinkable. Elder abuse caught on tape with millions more suffering in silence. What if this was your parent or your grandparent? On today's True Crime, could this happen to you? Our shocking investigation into elder abuse. How can you make sure your loved ones are safe? It's shocking and disturbing. elderly patients, infirmed, disabled, disoriented, and vulnerable, harassed, abused, and tormented by the very people they trust and depend on for care. It's hard to imagine and even harder to watch. Some of the horrific acts even caught on tape, like this 89-year-old, a non-verbal dementia patient, roughed up and punched in the face 11 times by a personal care worker, who was only caught because the patient's family, alarmed by the number of unexplained injuries he'd endured, installed a camera in the care facility. And his case is far from an isolated incident. Elder abuse is a troubling trend, crossing all racial, social, and economic lines. A shocking video of alleged abuse at a local nursing home. This hidden camera video from a nursing home in Sharon sparked outrage across the country. A 93-year-old grandmother with dementia tossed around, her hair pulled. She actually was taking her knuckles and she was banging him on the side of his temples, slapping him in the back of his head. According to the CDC, one out of every 10 Americans over 60 experience abuse, be it physical, emotional, financial, even sexual. And that statistic is likely underestimated due to the number of cases that go unreported by patients unable to communicate or advocate for themselves. Today, how can you protect your elderly loved ones from being abused? Crime correspondent Melissa Moore joins me now. I mean, everyone has to agree it's disturbing, it's shocking. Why? Why has elder abuse gone undetected for so long? Well, I was really surprised actually when I started digging into this to find out that the perpetrators, the offenders, are actually family members or people who have been entrusted with power or authority in the family. So that's why it's largely undetected is because who's going to turn in their family member? Are these happening in our homes? Are they happening in nursing facilities and hospitals? Where are we seeing all this elder abuse? Well, it's everywhere, and it's largely unreported, so we don't have all the exact facts on everywhere it's happening, but anywhere that an elderly person's being taken care of, it's subject. And it's not just a particular nursing home or whatnot or even a family home. It can happen anywhere, and that's what's so alarming, and I'm glad that today we're covering this so that people at home can know what to look out for. All right, this video shocked me. It's an 89-year-old man named George receiving repeated blows to the face by his personal care worker. Joining us now is George's grandson, Daniel, who actually planted a camera in his grandfather's room. So seeing that tape infuriates me. How did it affect you emotionally? How did it affect you physically to witness that? Well, when I first saw it, it was absolutely gut-wrenching, I can tell you. When we, my wife and I, viewed the footage on the evening of March 8, 2017, I literally stood up and collapsed. I could not imagine what I had just seen. I am a bigger guy, I'm a stronger guy, and nothing will prepare you for something like that. So these were pretty brusque thrusts from that personal care worker. What kind of injuries did your grandfather sustain? Yeah, so there were 11 jabs in total. He did receive some bruising to the face. Thankfully, there wasn't anything more serious, but obviously he did suffer some hits. This is a nursing home that I'm understanding your grandfather was at for a while. How long was he there? What was the experience like prior to this? Yeah, so he was admitted in August of 2015 and he quickly declined, his condition quickly declined. When he first entered, he was mobile. He could get in and out of his wheelchair. His weight was at an acceptable level. His weight significantly dropped since being there quickly and he could no longer move. He became in an immobilized state. And so from August 2015 until March 8, 2017, as you see in the video, his state degraded. You must have suspected something. I mean, you don't go off and place a camera in a room without some concerns about wrongdoing. Yeah, so the reason why I made the decision to put the camera in the room was after a series of three incidents. First one being August 2016, December 2016, and February 2017. My grandfather suffered numerous lacerations, cuts, bruises to his person. After the February 2017 incident where my grandfather suffered a cut to his neck, I made the decision that, no, we need a camera here because we need to know what's going on. How were you able to get approval for the camera? I think that's what surprised me in this case is that this is a public facility. How were you able to get the camera and then how did it, did it serve well as a deterrent? Okay, so to answer the first part of that question, when we went to install the camera, it is a private, so it is owned and operated by the City of Ottawa, but it is a private facility in that you do pay a fee to rent the room. So based on it being a private dwelling, you're allowed to have a camera in a room. So we didn't necessarily need the approval of the home, but we made the decision to put the camera in an open and accountable manner so that if anything were to ever pop up later on, no one would claim ignorance. And that's why when I installed the camera, which is about the size of a softball, on the wall directly facing the door when you walk into my grandfather's room, The wires were hanging out, and I did it in such a visible manner with the approval and blessing of management, so no one can claim ignorance. So even the worker that attacked your grandfather, he knew the camera was there? Yes, we even have a still frame of him looking at the camera in the lens of the camera before the incident occurred. But to answer the second part of your question, you would have thought it would be deterrent. Obviously, the nursing home must not have thought anything was going wrong, or they would have addressed that or warned people that here's the case where they know yet someone who works within the organization still was able to abuse your grandfather. Well, I could tell you that it's mind-blowing to me because the camera was on that individual and due to poor impulse control, I mean, this is what he said through the criminal proceedings. He says, Mr. Ji Zhao, the convicted at this point, he indicated that he hit my grandfather due to poor impulse control, which was caused by stress and anxiety because his wife was going back to complete her PhD and he was the sole breadwinner. So he didn't know how to handle it at the time. And that's what led him to unleash those punches on my grandfather. This is not just Ottawa, folks. It's happening all over the country. This country, Canada, all over America. So we reached out to the city of Ottawa on behalf of the Gary J. Armstrong Long-Term Care Home, which is where George was receiving his care. And they said, in part, any form of abuse or neglect towards a resident will not be tolerated and will be reported immediately. So, Dan, this man ended up getting arrested and going to jail. What does this justice mean for you? Well, I can tell you that I did all the work in order for that to happen. I apprehended him that evening and turned him over to the police. I don't think justice was particularly served. I voiced that concern. The individual in question, he did plead guilty. He received a 90-day incarceration sentence to be served intermittently. What that means is he serves two days a week inside jail and five days outside of jail. And those two days are based on his work schedule. So they're accommodating him to serve his time based on what days he works. So I don't think from that aspect, I don't think that that serves as a deterrent for future cases, and I think it sets a very dangerous precedent for individuals in this area of long-term care. But to me, what does justice look like? Well, it's essentially taking my grandfather's situation, giving it a voice, not letting him suffer in vain, and essentially changing the system. There has to be systemic change, and that will come through awareness, and that's what we're doing. Let's talk about that, because up next, the question is you need to ask in order to pick a safe nursing home for your loved ones. And the warning signs you can't afford to miss. Instant foods. Oatmeal. Coffee. Even rice. even pasta Have we sacrificed health for speed? It's fascinating. And I couldn't believe it when I first heard it. All nuance. That's coming up tomorrow. We're back investigating the shocking rise of elder abuse. That we've seen shocking and disturbing caught on tape footage of physical and verbal abuse in nursing homes across the country. Joining us now are two national leading experts in elder abuse prevention. social worker Daniel Reingold and attorney Troy Solomon. So let me start with you. You say this is a national epidemic. It goes far beyond nursing homes. What gives? What's going on? Why now? Dr. Oz, 50 million people in America are over the age of 65 and 10,000 people are turning 65 every single day of the year. And we are dealing with an enormous growth in the population. And the problem is that older adults are hidden away from view in our society. We don't embrace older adults the way we should. Growing old unites all of us and unifies us. And it's something that all of us have in common, regardless of our backgrounds. And there are so many of us turning 65 every day. And we live alone or we're isolated. And so the abuse that was caught on camera, this outrageous abuse, is dwarfed by what's going on in people's private homes. the abuse that's taking place in their own private homes without supervision, without family members like the people we just met earlier who were so devoted to their grandfather. It's not happening in people's own homes as well. So it's a demographic situation. So this goes beyond physical abuse. There are other types of abuse that you're dealing with professionally. Yes, so there's financial abuse and financial exploitation, which is the largest form of abuse that's happening. Over $2.9 billion a year is taken from older adults in financial scams, telemarketing scams from family members and trusted others. There's psychological abuse, which includes belittling, shaming, threatening older adults. There's also sexual abuse against older adults. And certainly we want to support the right for older adults to be engaged in sexual expression, but we want to make sure we're protecting older people from being sexually assaulted, and we need to pay attention to that. And often those forms are happening more than one at a time. So oftentimes, you know, where there's physical abuse occurring, there's also likely some psychological abuse as well. So what do you look for? How do you tell if someone dear to you is actually being hurt? Yeah, so there's some important signs. One is certainly the isolation of older people. As Dan mentioned, so many older adults are living alone in the community, and when they're isolated, oftentimes we don't really know what's going on. So isolation is an important sign. Change in patterns. Many older adults typically follow the same patterns, and when you see a change in pattern, for example, they're not able to pay their bills, and they had been before, or their affect and their medical condition is really shifted, but there's no medical explanation for it. It may be that they're not getting the food that they're supposed to be getting. Someone's taking their money so they can't buy their food. Another example might be them not having access to their assistive devices. So an older adult who may need a cane for mobility, one way to control that person is to take that cane away. So you want to be paying attention to that. How do you pick the right spot, Daniel? How do you pick a nursing home that's right for someone that's raised you? Well, first of all, let's remember that most of the care that people receive in nursing homes today is compassionate and kind and caring. What we saw in the film is outrageous and despicable. And in my 27 years, I've not seen something like this. But most of the people that are caring for our older adults are compassionate and kind people. What I recommend that people do is, first of all, get informed. There are many options that people can have for long-term care. One of them, obviously, is a nursing home. Others are assisted living, home care. There are more and more options becoming available. But if it's a nursing home that somebody's looking for, my preference is a nonprofit nursing home, a facility like ours that is interested in the mission of the work we do rather than making a profit. And so I think that's an important consideration. In the United States, there's a website called Nursing Home Compare, which is run by the federal government, which gives people information about the inspections that have taken place. And more importantly, for this particular issue, the staffing levels. One of the biggest problems in long-term care today is to find good, qualified people who want to do this work. And so look carefully at the staffing ratios or staffing levels of a facility. And then, of course, visit, talk to the staff, talk to the families. Use the five senses that you have. Listen to the way that residents are being spoken to by staff. Smell the facility. Taste the food that they're eating. See how they're being touched by the caregivers. Use your common sense. So I'm just going to offer some final thoughts here. Just like parents have to check in on kids, we have a moral obligation to check in on the elderly. It's the circle of life. We're all going to be there. It is the one unifying element of humanity these days. and just like how kids might not know they're being abused your older loved ones may not believe it either they may not understand what's going down so no one has the ability to spot this for you you got to do it yourself if you suspect something take matters into your own hands like my last guest did set up a camera just that camera itself might be a reasonable deterrent so I would think about that in my own personal life, I want to thank all my guests we'll be right back the house of horrors 13 siblings chained to their beds beaten and starved what's next for the 13 kids a Dr. Oz special report that's coming up on Tuesday on the next True Crime Tuesday we're investigating one of the darkest unsolved Hollywood mysteries of all time the death of actress Natalie But were investigators right to call her death a tragic accident or was it a perfect cover-up for murder. With doe-eyed innocence that evolved into smoldering sensuality, actress Natalie Wood made the leap from child star to leading lady with ease. Married, divorced, and remarried to actor Robert Wagner, the telegenic couple became one of Hollywood's most tumultuous duos, ending with Natalie's untimely and tragic death in 1981. The Los Angeles County coroner's autopsy would deem her death an accidental drowning. But the case was reopened in 2011, and Wood's death was reclassified to drowning and other undetermined factors. This Tuesday, Nancy Grace is here alongside Natalie Wood's sister, actress and former Bond girl Lana Wood, who is speaking out in an exclusive interview, revealing what she thinks really happened to her famous sister. We'll see you next time.