Comments about ‘Hatch reintroduces elder-abuse bill’

Elder Abuse includes abuse from unlawful and abusive guardianships/conservatorships - a growing national epidemic.

Bad guardianships are like stepping in quicksand -- the harder you fight to save yourself, the deeper you sink. Victims lose everything - sometimes even their very lives.

The elderly need our elected representatives to protect them from the system itself!

For more information and to read victims' stories, visit NASGA (National Association to Stop Guardian Abuse)

Yours,
Elaine Renoire
NASGA

What happens when our elderly are abused by the very system set up to protect them. When a guardian is abused in the guardianship courts, stripped of their rights and fleeced of their estates, is this not also elder abuse????

What will this bill do to address abuse against the elderly by the judicial system?

What can we do to stop this madness, this attack on American Familys and this burden that is shouldered by the American Taxpayers in the end when the foot the bill through medicaid to support Granny after the lawyers and professional guardians have been paid handsomely with her lifelong savings and she is dumped into and end of the line nursing home on medicaid and ssi that you and I pay for.

THIS IS ABUSE AND IS NOT PROTECTING ANYONE.

THANK YOU FOR CARING ABOUT THE ELDERLY AND INTRODUCING THIS BILL.

We must all work to support this bill and more to protect the vulnerable citizens of our country.

One day we will the helpless victims if we do not take action now.

If laws allowing and encouraging the "kidnapping" of the elderly are not abolished then America will NOT be safe to grow old in. When total strangers are allowed to legally "steal" an elder's identity and then transfer all the elder's assets to the "professional guardian's " control we have lost our legal and moral compass of this society. These abuses can and should be compared to "trafficing" people who are then stripped of all civil rights and are under the total control of people who make their "living" by billing outrageous amounts of money to shut down the lives and freedoms of these elder victims. This is NOT the America we thought we had, and yet those in power have yet to stand up and demand the abolition of such cruel and illegal behavior. The total lack of oversight of the judges and the courts is not lost to those of us who watched our parents destroyed by greed and lack of following what has been the backbone of this country: the Bill of Rights and the Constitution. NOW is when we must regain our sanity and abolish forced guardianships. NOW We must stop this gulag called guardianship

I think in the coming years we'll see a greater push for legalized suicide, and greater societal pressure for the elderly to go off somewhere and die so they are no longer a burden on the younger generations. This coarsening of society will lead to more abuse and more disrespect (as if there could be anymore) of the helpless, handicapped, and elderly. Meanwhile we'll all pay lipservice to bills like this, while our culture slides further away from the times when we enshrined the wisdom and insights of the aged. We can pass all the laws we want, but creating a law about civil tenderness without teaching it at a cultural level does not change behavior...