Counsel on aging: Are Grandparents becoming extinct? NH DHHS Abuse Elder's

Counsel on aging: Are Grandparents becoming extinct?
From Anonymous

Have you noticed that NH DHHS holds senior center and open public meetings at various facilities to address issues such as the New State Plan on Aging and the Older Americans Act? To address the diverse needs of our aging population seems helpful, now doesn't it? Well, wouldn't it be a positive healthy way to meet our aging populations diverse needs for NH DHHS to ENSURE that our aging and elderly Grandparents, Aunts, Uncles, Parents maintain their honor and dignity, via maintaining their family rights, to be able to have custody of their family member in NH DCYF custody, or to at least be able to remain as an active, loving and devoted Grandparent, Aunt, Uncle, Parent presence to their family member whenever it's not at all possible (after the maximum level of state services have been offered to make this family remain intact), when their beloved family member is in NH State custody? Here's a new concept: How about NH DHHS REUNITING CHILDREN IN NH STATE CUSTODY WITH THEIR GRANDPARENTS, AUNTS, UNCLES, PARENTS? What a NOVEL idea!! Wouldn't that be a testimony of NH DHHS to be able to make such a claim for "family reunification?"

NH DHHS holding meetings on aging is one thing, but NH DHHS really caring about our aging population is a totally different ball game! IF NH DHHS really cared about our aging population, then there would be family preservation programs already in place to deal with the HUGE AMOUNT of unnecessary stress to our aging family members from having their grandchildren, children, niece or nephew family members taken from their custody or from their child's or niece's or nephew's custody? Hey NH DHHS, just what programs do you have in place to deal with the stress placed on the family, including on the aging family, by NH DCYF's removal of their family members? What do you mean you have none! Don't you think that our aging population feels the pain of their children, or of their grandchildren, or of their niece of nephew being ripped from their lives? Is there no understanding of the concepts of family and love, or even of the devastating loss and pain of losing a family member?

Hey NH DHHS, can you say the words, "High Blood Pressure", "Stroke," "Depression" or "Heart Attack, "Poor Health" or "Failure to Thrive" which could happen easily to any of our aging population when experiencing "The Family Division"? It would be a real eye opener to see a medical study publish the results on the health and wellbeing, morbidity and mortality rates of our aging population when our aging population experiences losing a family member to NH DCYF custody... Just WHAT IS our aging population's life expectancy and just WHAT IS their quality of life when undergoing such unnecessary stress and heartbreak of the unnecessary loss of a grandchild, child, niece or nephew to NH DCYF? No family visits, no grandparent rights, no custody of the beloved family member to the aging population to even be considered......as that child is destined for a foster family in the name of Title-IV funding! OH boy, that sounds like something we all want to look forward to as we age, now doesn't it! It makes arthritis seem a lot less painful when thinking about the loss of a family member to NH DCYF, eh? It's time that some of our aging family members start questioning NH DHHS on the services they are really providing to our families, including to our aging and elderly population!

Yes, NH DHHS, our elderly and our aging population certainly do matter....and not just because of Medicare and Medicaid regulations or any other programs you can "offer". Our elderly are our Parents and Grandparents, our Aunts and Uncles! Our aging and our elderly have Rights, and they've also had their family rights trampled on by NH DCYF, the child stealing sub-company of NH DHHS.....Our aging and elderly have been victimized by NH DCYF. And what have you done about this? NH DHHS, if you REALLY CARE ABOUT OUR ELDERLY then you'd stop this atrocity to our aging and elderly population, as well as to the families of our aging and elderly population!

By the way, isn't it a possibility that stealing a beloved family member away from an aging or elderly person be considered a form of elder abuse? Just some food for thought!

----Anonymous