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Please help raise awareness. In Alabama you cannot appoint your own guardian/conservator. This results in warehousing of the elderly is what is akin to concrete block chicken houses!
My dear mother, La Faye S. Lynch, has been warehoused in a Montgomery, Alabama nursing home. She has been confined to a small concrete block room until the day she dies, this done via order of Judge Reese McKinney, Jr., the same judge who was on the Board of Directors of Jackson Hospital when it was recommended that she enter Crowne nursing home for a period of rehabilitation.
When I learned that my dear mother was not under the care of a geriatrics specialist nor receiving the best physical therapy possible, I arranged to have her transferred to Tyson nursing home. However, administrators at Crowne asked the judge to stop this transfer. Power and control was then taken over my mother by the State of Alabama that she could be milked by the system for all her income and benefits. This would be well over $250,000.00 in five years time -- an income than those in power and control over my dear mother are not using in her best interest since she is not under the care of a geriatrics specialist or her private physician who is a specialist in internal medicine.
This is a terrible form of corruption and represents exploitation of the elderly who cannot speak for themselves. The judges and lawyers involved as well as the nursing home ends up profiting from this form of exploitation of the elderly. The law in Alabama needs to be changed so that everyone can appoint their own guardian/conservator.
When you take love out of the equation corruption is the result. In my dear mother's case she had loving and caring family members who were perfectly capable of making sound and reasonable decisions with respect to the administration of her health care and welfare. Because the probate court of Montgomery County did not act in my mother's best interest, did not follow her wishes and desires, and hence participated in the destruction of my mother's family, it is right and proper that this abuse and exploitation of the elderly be exposed for what it is, akin to the warehousing of the elderly like chickens!
The harsh reality of this situation is that love has been taken out of the equation by the corrupt court and for-profit nursing home. As a consequence, instead of getting the best care that my mother can afford, she is getting inferior treatment and is being treated like an animal, like a chicken, confined to a small, noisy, concrete block room that is no better than how many chickens are kept.
After having seen how my dear mother was treated, any reasonable, responsible and loving son would certainly have arranged to have her transferred to the best care facility that could be found. That is exactly what I attempted to do. Yet I was prevented from doing this by a corrupt system that simply did not want to lose the income it would receive by taking power and control over my dear mother and her estate.
As a result of trying to provide the best care for my dear mother, I was sued by the vary lawyers the court appointed to be my mother's guardian/conservator; when, in fact, she had recommended me for that duty. This is about as corrupt as you can get. It resulted in loss of property and cause me great hurt, harm and emotional distress. How can such a system exist and be called justice or the proper way to care for the elderly or their loving families?
Simply put, the State of Alabama is treating its elderly like chickens, warehousing them for profit! I would like to ask anyone who can help please do whatever you can to change how the elderly are treated in Alabama. This may mean working to change the law so everyone can appoint their own guardian/conservator. Or if you like you may support my efforts to raise awareness and expose corruption. Unless we all act now to secure the future of the elderly in Alabama from corruption, we will all end up as chickens warehoused in concrete block chicken houses, were we will rot away until the day we die!
TAL
27 July, 2007