CherylAnn
01-29-2011, 06:49 PM
Here is some information and questions about the abusive behavior we have been dealing with...........
Would an 80 year-old uncle, (who has always lived on a 35' sailboat) by literally insisting his 80 year-old twin brother (my dad) who had a stroke several years ago, is unsteady on his feet and diagnosed with vascular dementia and subsequently totally dependent on his brother to handle his financial affairs, has no choice or option except to buy and live by himself on a 34' - 15 year old fishing trawler he will obviously never be able to learn to use as such, or use the lavatory and shower on-board and must always walk to use the public ones nearby instead, is heated only by a small electric space heater, has no working stove or refrigerator and on which he also recently slipped and fell getting on and off of the boat, breaking the same hip replaced years before, and is presently in a convalescent facility, heavily medicated, in tremendous amount of pain, recuperating from surgery, can't walk anymore at all and may possibly be unable to ever walk again, etc., etc., be considered "elder abuse"? Criminal Negligence?
For example:
Criminal Negligence is an act of which the person (UNCLE JOE) had actual, subjective awareness of the risk involved (BROTHER 80/DEMENTIA), but nevertheless proceeds (BOUGHT MY FATHER A BOAT) with conscious indifference (LIKES BOATS/NOT BROTHER/ALWAYS ALSO WANTED TO BUY A TRAWLER HIMSELF) to the welfare of another (BROTHER) and just shy of being (NOT 'SHY', TO ME IS) intentionally evil.
Would an 80 year-old uncle, (who has always lived on a 35' sailboat) by literally insisting his 80 year-old twin brother (my dad) who had a stroke several years ago, is unsteady on his feet and diagnosed with vascular dementia and subsequently totally dependent on his brother to handle his financial affairs, has no choice or option except to buy and live by himself on a 34' - 15 year old fishing trawler he will obviously never be able to learn to use as such, or use the lavatory and shower on-board and must always walk to use the public ones nearby instead, is heated only by a small electric space heater, has no working stove or refrigerator and on which he also recently slipped and fell getting on and off of the boat, breaking the same hip replaced years before, and is presently in a convalescent facility, heavily medicated, in tremendous amount of pain, recuperating from surgery, can't walk anymore at all and may possibly be unable to ever walk again, etc., etc., be considered "elder abuse"? Criminal Negligence?
For example:
Criminal Negligence is an act of which the person (UNCLE JOE) had actual, subjective awareness of the risk involved (BROTHER 80/DEMENTIA), but nevertheless proceeds (BOUGHT MY FATHER A BOAT) with conscious indifference (LIKES BOATS/NOT BROTHER/ALWAYS ALSO WANTED TO BUY A TRAWLER HIMSELF) to the welfare of another (BROTHER) and just shy of being (NOT 'SHY', TO ME IS) intentionally evil.