Why The Secrecy? It's Our Tax Dollars

Time continues to pass as it gives and takes, provides laughter and sorrow. Life changes a little as it moves us on our way.

Found an entry I started in 2016 -- I try to finish what I start but sometimes feelings and work in progress take over or I start several "blog entries" because life provides the "content".

It's thirteen years later. Little has changed. Information is still challenging to find -- accurate, not buried in the depths of records you're lucky if you can find the topic or the actual content you want or need.

Here's what I said back then:

Do you believe all you have to do is ask or search on the internet and you'll find everything you need to know about the most treacherous journey of your life -- into the future, the years of uncertainty, potential major life changes physically, emotionally and mentally?

There are many people who "for a price" will "assist" and some are honest and dependable but others use the "business of aging" to its lowest form.

Well, I've spent almost fourteen years searching and evaluating, hitting one brick wall after another. 

As I write and update, it's now February, 2024. Ten years have passed, a few corrections achieved but overall still a major necessity to have everyone be vigilant and avid reporters to their State of any and all observed and/or experienced Elder Abuse or Mistreatment in Care Facilities of all economic levels.

I can tell you it's a long, challenging journey filled with minimal information in one place, requiring extensive reading and jumping to other sites due to the involvement. But it's actually worse than that.

So many levels of law, levels of administration and groups within federal and state governments given varying and not always administrative functions and duties needed to resolve my questions, issues and situations with my husband and with my Mom.

It provides a lot of work, though, and jobs, many with very secure features due to being Merit Based positions. 

Too many possible organizations and people and none with actual designated responsibilities for areas we've found needing remedy as they endanger the lives of people who cannot effectively manage to remedy the problems for themselves.

That is only one of the major problems we've experienced in trying to right wrongs and manage situations effectively/efficiently. 

We are the protectors of our generations as they move forward. 

We should not focus on any age group as needing more than another. 

We must realize when we allow freedoms and rights to be compromised, to be set aside, to be overlooked, for any "ism" -- 

race, religion, gender, etc -- and especially AGE, our system of government, our society as a whole, crumbles from within.

The World has changed somewhat as Technology opens doors and windows and quickly brings to light what some try to shove to the bottom of stacks or pass along to continuous others knowing "it" will get lost in the never ending stacks to go through.

"It's in THEIR BEST INTEREST" we're told and that's why paperwork and those who violate and harm our elderly are still "out there" somewhere, never answering for their crimes.

No one will admit at the State or Federal level that our aging population are easy "marks" by predators on phones, in mail, at front doors, even walking down a street. But they are!

Predators can be found working in or visiting a residence -- private or subject to State Regulations that are mostly overlooked, seldom questioned and often set aside for "lack of acceptable proof".

Too few enforcers, too many questionable incidents of Elder abuse.