Estrangement from a difficult aging parent in this case nearly led to the elder s death from self-neglect. See the options the family had in dealing with this issue.
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A new Pennsylvania law makes changes to the process of assigning guardians to people who are considered incapacitated, but some experts fear it won’t solve the issues.
Rep. Claude Pepper of Florida held a hearing in September 1987 to investigate the abuse of senior citizens placed into court-ordered guardianship. “It is, in one short sentence,” he said during his opening statement, “the most punitive civil penalty that can be levied against an American citizen, with the exception, of course, of the death penalty.”
Shona Garner-White says she is "seeking the truth" nearly two weeks after her 17-year-old daughter died while in the custody of the Tennessee youth group home she had voluntarily sent her to for help. Garner-White held a news conference in Memphis on Wednesday along with her attorney Benjamin Crump and other family members, demanding answers on behalf of her daughter, Alegend Jones, who died Nov. 17 at a hospital after being taken there from the Youth Villages facility in the Memphis suburb of Bartlett. Officials at the youth home said the teen died from a "medical emergency" while under their guardianship.