A System Gone Wrong!

A System Gone Wrong… This could be you!
Picture this and you decide. This is an actual event that I was asked to assist in.
A 64 yr. old woman was living with her 94 yr. old mother in Largo. The daughter who has Parkinson’s, fell and was taken to the hospital in an emergency situation. The neighbor called Department of Children and Families and they came and placed mother in an Assisted Living Facility. An outside party, a stranger to the family, took over power of Attorney and proceeded to close out her safe deposit box and take over her affairs. Then the daughter was discharged from the hospital to the same Assisted Living Facility (was never given a choice) and the same person took over her affairs and became her Power of Attorney. Now the daughter is starting to feel better and more in control and tells friends she doesn’t want to stay there anymore. She wants to move her and her mother to another Assisted Living Facility. Guess what… They won’t let her go. They have her and her mother believing they are not allowed to go. Friends call an attorney. The attorney determines the daughter is NOT incompetent & has rights. The daughter goes out for lunch one day never to return. The attorney draws up new POA papers for her, but not before the original POA writes herself a paycheck from the daughter’s acct. THE NEXT STEP? Helping mom escape. The daughter, family friends & myself, visit the ALF one cold windy evening; we are not allowed into the facility. ALL COMMUNICATION STOPS. The owner refuses to talk with me, the nurse advocate. Abuse line is called. Sheriff is called and we are told by him to promptly leave the premises. The outcome? SEPARATION OF FAMILY. Attorneys started initiating guardianship for the mother so she and the daughter can be in control of their own affairs and become reunited. The mother, however, is becoming aloof with her daughter & believes she really just should not leave. Because of financial concerns, however, efforts have stopped. The results: the daughter now has a new Power of Attorney, lives in a more appropriate Assisted Living Facility, and is somewhat estranged from her mother. The mother remains in the first Assisted Living Facility and she believes her Power of Attorney is her new best friend.
My Questions & Concerns:
ETHICS: The refusal of ALF owner, POA, sheriff to talk with family friends of twenty years or nurse advocate, UNDERHANDEDNESS of the situation.
EXPLOITATION: Emotional, undue influence by the ALF & POA placed upon on a 94 year old woman
THE SYSTEM: Which allowed the strangers to take power, ABUSE OF POWER
My question??? Who selected this person?