the person had money to give the nursing home $60 a day for a month - incredible kinds of things go on, you just can’t understand how it’s a part of our process.” Springfield service provider Public Guardian] is an appointed position, political appointment. They do “[The not have to know one in Washington County is a anything…the contractor.” Springfield service provider “There’s no training, there are no guidelines, there is no supervision of the Springfield service provider county guardians.” just did a contested guardianship with an abuser, and the end bill was “We $28,000. I mean that was a person fighting us on the situation. And one where we just go fighting us except for the senior themselves saying, through, nobody’s want a and they have the right to contest. Those [cases] are ‘I don’t guardian,’ Chicago service provider running us between seven and eight thousand dollars.” now he takes contested cases much more seriously, which is great, but it “…But has driven up our costs four times for the petitioner-- instead of it costing $800 it costs $2,000, and been a huge problem for us. So a lot of people who we that’s Springfield service thought needed guardianship, they gotten haven’t it.” provider some great private agencies that handle guardianship cases. “There’s They’re wonderful people, they get the job done, but their fee is quite a bit, too.” Chicago service provider just the cost of going through the guardianship process alone for that family “And member, whether really interested in being the guardian or not, a lot of they’re times that amount of money is just cost-prohibitive for them; they do can’t it.” Chicago service provider Springfield participants discussed problems with the cost involved in designating a successor guardian. think they could make it easier in terms of once guardianship has been “I established to transfer it over without it costing again and going through the whole Even if it was just a paper would process…identify someone. filing…that Springfield service provider be more affordable.” case managers are not given a lot of authority right told to do “The now…they’re a certain job, but they have the guardianship we have case loads don’t status…or of 200 managers are usually the least paid people on the tier of people…Case Chicago service provider services.”
the person had money to give the nursing home $60 a day for a month - incredible kinds of things go on, you just can’t understand how it’s a part of our process.” Springfield service provider “[The Public Guardian] is an appointed position, political appointment. They do not have to know anything…the one in Washington County is a contractor.” Springfield service provider “There’s no training, there are no guidelines, there is no supervision of the county guardians.” Springfield service provider “We just did a contested guardianship with an abuser, and the end bill was $28,000. I mean that was a person fighting us on the situation. And one where we just go through, nobody’s fighting us except for the senior themselves saying, ‘I don’t want a guardian,’ and they have the right to contest. Those [cases] are running us between seven and eight thousand dollars.” Chicago service provider “…But now he takes contested cases much more seriously, which is great, but it has driven up our costs four times for the petitioner-- instead of it costing $800 it costs $2,000, and that’s been a huge problem for us. So a lot of people who we thought needed guardianship, they haven’t gotten it.” Springfield service provider “There’s some great private agencies that handle guardianship cases. They’re wonderful people, they get the job done, but their fee is quite a bit, too.” Chicago service provider “And just the cost of going through the guardianship process alone for that family member, whether they’re really interested in being the guardian or not, a lot of times that amount of money is just cost-prohibitive for them; they can’t do it.” Chicago service provider Springfield participants discussed problems with the cost involved in designating a successor guardian. “I think they could make it easier in terms of once guardianship has been established to transfer it over without it costing again and going through the whole process…identify someone. Even if it was just a paper filing…that would be more affordable.” Springfield service provider “The case managers are not given a lot of authority right now…they’re told to do a certain job, but they don’t have the guardianship status…or we have case loads of 200 people…Case managers are usually the least paid people on the tier of services.” Chicago service provider
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