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Name: Angela Patreka on Jul 21, 2011Comments:Flag
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Name: Olivia Areas on Jul 21, 2011Comments:Flag
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Name: Jessica Hensley on Jul 21, 2011Comments:Flag
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Name: Margaret Shipman on Jul 21, 2011Comments:Flag
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Name: Margaret Shipman on Jul 21, 2011Comments:Flag
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Name: Janet B. Guillory on Sep 10, 2011Comments: I was the caretaker for my maternal uncle, who suffered from Alzheimer's dementia. He was a childless man whose wife predeceased him. My husband left our home, several hundred yards away from my uncle's, and moved in with him. For more than four years we attended to all his needs in a loving, caring way as his dementia advanced. In March of 2007, my uncle's only remaining sibling traveled from Tennessee to Mississippi and announced to me that he "intended to get Loyd" to sign over all his assets to him, that if I would "go along" with him, he would deed a parcel of land to me once my uncle passed away. I refused, informed my Tennessee uncle that his brother was suffering from advanced Alzheimer's disease and could not legally sign any documents that would be binding. Despite my refusual, and in secrecy, the Tennessee uncle took my uncle from his home and our care and removed him from the State of Mississippi. For the following six months, in courts of Mississippi and, ultimately, Tennessee, I obtained conservatorship over my uncle and his estate. Finally, in September, 2007, the State of Tennessee recognized its sister state of Mississippi's court orders and appointment of my as conservator and ordered my Tennessee uncle to turn over my uncle to me, immediately. Little did I realize that my uncle in Tennessee had, upon arrival in that state, secured a doctor's opinion that my uncle was "terminally ill", and immediately employed a hospice service which offered "no curative care" for my suffering uncle. He was removed from all medications and essentially left in his bed to die. I spent the Labor Day holiday in Baptist Hospital in Memphis while the doctors worked to stabilize my uncle to bring him home to Mississippi. We arrived back in the state, and he was immediately hospitalized. The attending physician was his treating physician for years. He explained that my uncle, whose weight had dropped more than 50 pounds, was so dehydrated and malnourished that his veins and arteries were "leaking" cellular material. A week later, my beloved uncle Loyd died. It is NOT enough to assign block grants to the states to fight elder abuse. It IS IMPERATIVE that a law be enacted, similar to the Parental Kidnapping Act of 1976, that would empower the federal government to arrest any individual who moves a vulnerable adult across state lines for the purpose of exploitation, and to forthwith return those individuals to their rightful, legal caretakers in the state having original jurisdiction of these individuals. Had such a law been in effect in 2007, I believe, as did my uncle's attending physician, that the six months I spent in courts in two states would have been unnecessary, and, most importantly: My uncle would not have died from his neglect and abuse. When Uncle Loyd died he had multiple, open wounds on his back, shoulders, legs and feet. MERSA infection had set in, and a wound in his right leg was open to the bone. He died suffering, a man who served his country with distinction in World War II and faced down a foreign enemy, only to have a brother steal him away for the purpose of obtaining his money and assets, as quickly as he could. I respectfully request that there be serious consideration give to implementing or revising elder laws to include kidnapping vulnerable adults and removing them across state lines to prevent caring caretakers from reaching them in time to save their lives. I am working on a presentation to give my state's representatives in Congress, "Loyd's Law", I hope it will be called. Congress, in a bi-partisan manner, cannot refuse something so compelling, and simple to solve. Make removing vulnerable adults across state lines for the purpose of exploitation and abuse a federal crime, with a federal remedy, as was enacted in 1976 to prevent and stop the rising number of non-custodial parents removing vulnerable children across state lines for the purpose of forum-shopping and to deny the custodial parent their rights to the child. Thank you for your time and attention. Sincerely, Janet B. Guillory 169 Ratliff Road Foxworth, MS 39483 (601) 731-3722Flag
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Name: Jean A Phillips on Jan 22, 2012Comments: I have seen elderly abuse for the first time in my life. A disabled person who lives in my building bullyied several elder friends of mine. Management knows this and does nothing to help us elderly who live here. Don't we as senois have rights.Flag
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Name: Cynthia Clemens on Apr 23, 2012Comments: this is so overdue it is shameful!Flag