The first is that he’s not trying to “drum up business” - he considers it his duty as someone who works in the industry. Even if the decision of social services would be that the person needs assisted living care, where that person is placed depends entirely on the family’s wishes. Nor do I suspect that he spends his free time driving around assessing the stability of people he knows nothing about, like some kind of renegade bounty hunter.
The second is that, and don’t take this the wrong way, but I kind of have a problem helping you out here. The tone of your posts leads me to believe you don’t seem to have the best interests in mind of whoemever this “old person” is. Personally, I think a situation in which someone has to be removed from their home due to senility is not “great news” nor “awesome”, but rather tragic. Your desire to be able to “call some number and have them picked up” like they’re an old couch is rather unsettling, to say the least.
Perhaps if you explained your situation more fully, we could work out a better solution for you?
Personally, my “situation” is none of your business. Personally, I don’t think getting rid of old people is “tragic”. Personally, I’ll be calling every nursing home in my area and seeing if I can find someone who DOES want the business. Personally, my neighborhood will be ten million times better once I get the ball rolling.
Thanks for nothing.
Oh, and Mangeorge - so everyone that chooses to live in Texas should be hauled away? Nice attitude.
Here in GQ, we’re here because we enjoy looking stuff up on the Web for folks. It’s an “elective”, not a “required”. If you bite our heads off when we try to help, that’s going to make us much less inclined to look stuff up for you the next time you come into GQ and want a question answered.
Dooku was making several excellent points, I thought, and your responses to both him and to Mangeorge were, IMO, rude.
If there’s a Senile Wets-His-Pants-and-Walks-Around-Muttering Crank on your block, why not start with his/her family? Let it be their problem.
Uh-huh. Well, I hate to burst your bubble, kid, but unless you are a responsiblefamily member (in the eyes of the court) or an officer of the law, you have no hope in hell of getting your neighborhood cleared of what you consider undesireable elements.
After all, your neighborhood hasn’t gotten rid of you yet, have they? :rolleyes:
“Danger to himself or others” seems to be pretty universal, but the length of “involuntary committment/observation” seems to vary from state to state and even locality.
Just from what I see, it seems in practice that the authroities are loath to take anyone anywhere without ironclad reasons and nothing better to do. With terrorists, drug dealers, etc., they have more on their minds than the occasional senile perambulator.
Uekte, I am an old guy, at least by your standards. If matters were to be put to a fair vote, I would most likely be left alone while you would be put in some sort of remedial living facility.
Well Dooku, every old folks home I have called says there’s NO SUCH THING as being able to have someone that works there forcibly detain an old person. Thanks again for your help.
For the rest of you: thanks for your opinions - I have plenty of reasons for holding the opinions I do, and they are my own. My situation is, repeat, NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS.
My friend is the Director of an assisted living facility. With his degree, he can absolutely, without contacting the police first, have social services pick up any senior citizen he witnesses being a danger to himself or others. In this case, his degree and title affords him this ability, such that he does not need to first contact the authorities. (Although social services would in any case).
If he carefully observes someone over a lengthy period of time creating a difficult situation, does he do it? Only in extreme circumstances.
If someone cuts him off in traffic, does he do it? Nope.
If I called him and gave him a name, would he do it? Of course not.
More to the point, if you called any assisted living facility and started your diatribe about wanting an old person picked up, whether you actually got through to the director or not, would they do it? Well, you got your answer.
And…um…your welcome. If you want to press this issue further, keep it in the Pit thread that you clearly so richly deserve.
Nice attitude???
Jesus, Uekte, do you read your own posts?
Just living in Texas (aside to other Texans: Just kidding here) is only one factor. Threatening to deprive someone of their freedom simply because he/she is old is another. So would being irrational, and spewing inane verse such as “NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS” in an adult conversation.
Please, accept Dooku’s offer, above.
Peace,
mangeorge
