In the shires beside Nacogdoces, Texas. a country locality
behind what some local persons call "the Pine Curtain," statistics
show the next breakdown for mature individual shielding services cases:
13% misuse 55% self-neglect 20% caretaker neglect 12%
economic exploitation
Although these statistics came from a country locality,
meetings with APS employees in Chicago, Philadelphia, Dallas, and Seattle
displayed likenesses in the breakdown of described cases.
Even when the statistics disagree, the tales behind them are
often the same. They are miserable, perplexing and, occasionally, mean-spirited
tales of families worried by end wedding ceremony, addiction, mental sickness,
scarcity, and the adversities of nurturing for a family constituent with
disability or dementia. The tales are furthermore about frail aged persons who
start to neglect themselves because life becomes too tough and there are no
family constituents dwelling nearby.
What the statistics don't quantify are the long h6urs and
reduced yield of mature individual shielding services employees who have to
choose up where families depart off. The tales these employees notify disclose
a tragic and dark edge of family life and of vintage age in modem America.
Behind the statistics and the shut doorways are case past notes like these:
13% Abuse Her eye was very dark and azure and she dwelled
with her 40-year-old child who drank very powerfully and had been identified as
pain from manic despondency and post-traumatic tension syndrome after a stint
in Vietnam. At first. she said he had not anything to manage with her bruised
eye. Finally, she accepted that, well, he had been throwing things round the
room, and perhaps the phone might have strike her, but "No," she
wouldn't press charges. To extract Nydia Boyette, an mature individual
shielding services worker(*) consulted in Nacogdoces, Texas, "Parents are
reluctant and embarrassed to issue the digit at their children."
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