Wabash Center today launched a new program to pair incapacitated adults in Tippecanoe County with volunteers who can serve as their court-appointed advocates.
Coordinator Richard Richardson said Tippecanoe Adult Guardianship Services will help adults who need temporary or long-term assistance with personal, financial or health needs that they cannot handle on their own. Already 30 adults are on a wait list for the program, he said.
"All you really have to do is go in any nursing home, anywhere in the country," Richardson said, "and anywhere from 10 to 30 percent of the people incapacitated have no one to care for their needs. ... Nobody hears about them because they don't have a lobbying group, because they're hidden."
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Adult Guardianship Program Launched
It's not so simple as, "All you have to do..."
ReplyDeleteGuardianship is serious business and it should always be addressed as such.
Exactly, Anonymous.
ReplyDeleteGuardians have complete and total autonomy over their helpless wards.
And basically nobody's watching.
I will try to think positive - that Wabash Center will train these guardians to do right by their wards.
ReplyDeleteI would feel better if I were assured all these wards really didn't have family ready and willing to take care of them.
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