Involuntary guardianships are a problem for ANYONE in the 70+ age bracket. But they are even more a problem for:
- Those living alone — because you don’t have that spouse/partner as a first level of defense.
- Anyone who appears (to a casual observer or a cyber stalker) to have a nice nest egg.
Involuntary guardianships were established to help people who can no longer care for themselves. But they have become, according to The Con Game — A Failure of Trust, “An open invitation to potential abuse.”
Here are just some of the problems that make this legal procedure unconscionable in how it is administered:
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Say you wake up after an accident in the hospital. You slowly realize that you are completely paralyzed and on a ventilator. All your life you have feared this very circumstance. You still have your wits about you and you are filled with revulsion at the idea of living helpless and captive to machinery. You would much rather die than live in this condition, even though the doctors say you could live for years. Is there help for you? 