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September 2, 2010
102-year-old seeks to ditch legal guardian
Published: 30 Jul 10 13:14 CET | Double click on a word to get a translation
Online: http://www.thelocal.se/28100/20100730/
A 102-year-old woman in Halmstad in southwestern Sweden wants to get rid of the legal guardian that the municipality arranged for her against her will when it mistakenly assumed she had no living relatives.
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"The fact that I'm old doesn't mean I'm stupid," she told Aftonbladet.
Due to her age and state of health, she moved into municipal housing and the municipality's chief guardian decided on the trusteeship because they believed she had no living relatives to take care of her.
However, she has a niece, Camilla, who is in her 40s. She was not informed of the decision to move Fagerberg into a home. When she went to look for her aunt, she was suddenly greeted by a door with a changed lock. The two women have applied to the district court to have the legal guardianship removed, wrote local newspaper Hallandsposten.
"Trusteeship is an excessive intervention," the woman's representative Torbjörn Lindstrand told the newspaper. "The need for control and transparency can be solved with an adminstrator or by proxy."
"I cannot hear what you are saying," Fagerberg answered in a loud voice to the first question asked to her in the courtroom this week. "But I'll slap my hands on the table like this."
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"I cannot hear what you are saying," answered the woman in a loud voice to the first question asked to her in the courtroom this week. "But I'll slapping my hands on the table, like this."
doesn't that justify the need to have someone take care of the woman's affairs. perhaps her niece should, if she truly cares. otherwise, a state appointed guardian should assume that responsibility.
They would have had a field day this month with Lindberg and now this story. Tadchem is completely right. And the cause? Ansvar, or responsibility. The most feared word in the Swedish vocabulary. "It wisnae me. It wis that big boy". Don't think, just follow the Rule Book. Makes you want to puke.
Sometime you just have to say ... I cocked up and that's that!
FARNOXO assumes that because a person is 102 that they no longer can or should care about themselves and should delegate it to others. Okay, the old gal missed her rent payment and needs helping seeing to her affairs... that can be done respectfully and allowing her dignity.
There is obviously more to this story than is being reported here. Perhaps the story here will be supplemented with a chronology or even......(drum roll) facts, perhaps not - I'll not be holding my breath.
@DAVID T - grow up.
I believe that this is unfair. They have gone about it the wrong way and she deserves more respect. Since when does age come into it? They say she is healthy and she is capable of doing it on her own!
Far out we all miss a payment every now and then...
I hope it works out for her =) I really do!