McLean County senior citizens who might not be able to care for themselves will soon have access to new support resources, thanks to a grant from the Retirement Research Foundation.Karen Zangerle, director of Providing Access to Help (PATH) and the local 211 hotline, told WJBC on Monday she just received news of the funding.
“We’ll get $50,000 starting in January to help with self-neglect cases among seniors,” she said.
Zangerle said the agency will use the money in two main areas: recruiting attorneys to take on guardianship cases and training a local therapist to help with hoarding cases.
“Our No. 1 goal is to keep elderly people in their homes,” Zangerle said.
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New Funds Available for Neglected Senior Citizens in McLean County
SOS? Give it to the Gs?
ReplyDeleteLooks like the number one goal is making money here and feeding the courts.
ReplyDeleteA hoarder is now considered "incompetent"? This is very scary and I am outraged that it appears McLean County is gearing up for more guardianships instead of less guardianships.
ReplyDeleteif hoarders are prey for gaurdianship industry what's next? people who eat too many cup cakes? there are levels of hoarding ie 1-10, with 10 being the worst where the stuff consumes 99% of the residence, right now i figure i'm at level 2 cause you never know when you might need it or wear it and in this disasterous economy i think people who are thinking ahead might be an example to the throw away generation spend thrifts who file for bankruptcy cause they overspent now these people should be guardianized.
ReplyDeleteWatch out, McLean County elderly. It looks like they'll be giving away free T-shirts with targets on them!
ReplyDeleteWhen I read this story, I hit the roof! It appears to me to be nothing more than trolling. Beware!
ReplyDeleteIllinois is getting to be a scarier place all the time!
ReplyDeleteBusiness as usual. More attorneys are turning to positions as GAL's because it's easy money. Go to Small Town America and they find a bus load of elderly comin' home from a day in Chicago and the hitch up the Mac Truck and drive them to the Probates Courts of Illinois. One by one, they're stripped of their rights, their money, and their lives. And to think, we're paying with our tax dollars.
ReplyDeleteRecruiting more attorneys? My gosh, they're practically crawling over each other now to get to guardianship cases in Illinois!
ReplyDeleteGuardianship (when it's bad) doesn't keep people at home. Bad guardianship feeds nursing homes.
ReplyDeleteOMG!
ReplyDeleteGuardianship because a person is a hoarder? It's come to that?
ReplyDeleteNobody thinks hoarding is a great thing, but if a person takes care of him/herself and pays his/her bills, then how can anyone decide that those same people can't hoard?
This is out of hand and it's wrong.