IMAGINE
Imagine finding yourself fully aware of your mental senses but unable to express yourself verbally or with actions. Think how hard it would be to not have the strength or the ability to stand up for yourself or have a voice in any matter that pertains directly to you.
Imagine how it would feel to plan carefully to have the person you love and trust take care of your financial needs should you become incompetent, but instead find yourself the unwilling “property” of a cold, hard institution. How would it feel to have every financial decision you have made your entire life reversed against your will and all of your financial resources seized and placed in a bank you have no knowledge of?
Imagine people whom you don’t know making vital decisions about you — where you’re going to live and how much of your own money will be spent on your care and comfort. Think about wanting or needing a comfort item, having the money for it, but being denied use of your own money while the Court approves thousands of dollars freely billed against your account by the bank and its attorneys.
Imagine the Court and the financial guardian making it hard for your caregivers to care for you and how you’d feel if even your family was completely powerless to keep the vultures away from you.
Imagine if you were being exploited by the very people appointed by the law to protect you and there was no one who could help you because the Court favored the people (the Bank and the Attorneys) profiting from your disability, ignoring your wishes, and treating you without respect or dignity.
Imagine what’s going to happen if we don’t do something to stop abusive guardianships of the elderly before you find your grandparent, your parent, or even yourself an unwilling and captive victim.
Imagine you're getting older every day and will someday be among the elderly! Turn around and YOU'RE THERE!
Imagine how it would feel to plan carefully to have the person you love and trust take care of your financial needs should you become incompetent, but instead find yourself the unwilling “property” of a cold, hard institution. How would it feel to have every financial decision you have made your entire life reversed against your will and all of your financial resources seized and placed in a bank you have no knowledge of?
Imagine people whom you don’t know making vital decisions about you — where you’re going to live and how much of your own money will be spent on your care and comfort. Think about wanting or needing a comfort item, having the money for it, but being denied use of your own money while the Court approves thousands of dollars freely billed against your account by the bank and its attorneys.
Imagine the Court and the financial guardian making it hard for your caregivers to care for you and how you’d feel if even your family was completely powerless to keep the vultures away from you.
Imagine if you were being exploited by the very people appointed by the law to protect you and there was no one who could help you because the Court favored the people (the Bank and the Attorneys) profiting from your disability, ignoring your wishes, and treating you without respect or dignity.
Imagine what’s going to happen if we don’t do something to stop abusive guardianships of the elderly before you find your grandparent, your parent, or even yourself an unwilling and captive victim.
Imagine you're getting older every day and will someday be among the elderly! Turn around and YOU'RE THERE!
