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'More Art' Than Science: Incapacity Findings Prone To Abuse By Cara Bayles | July 11, 2021, 8:02 PM EDT The conservatorship of pop star Britney Spears has drawn fresh criticism to "incapacity" — a designation that's part medical diagnosis, part legal determination, and can strip people of their rights to make their own financial and health care decisions. (Frederic J. Brown/AFP via Getty Images) In the summer of 2018, four years into his guardianship, Doug Keegan kept breaking into his own house. He walked eight miles from his senior living facility to retrieve his bicycle from hi...

COVID Companions collaboration benefits students and the community Published Saturday, May. 8, 2021, 12:05 am Join AFP's 100,000+ followers on Facebook Purchase a subscription to AFP Subscribe to AFP podcasts on iTunes and Spotify News, press releases, letters to the editor: augustafreepress2@gmail.com (© InsideCreativeHouse – stock.adobe.com) Kirin Anand places the Amazon Fire high-definition tablet on the front steps of a house and rings the doorbell. Then he walks back to his car and makes a phone call. His COVID Companion answers and, after a brief conversation, she opens the door to...

This story was originally published by Searchlight New Mexico. LAS CRUCES — Dorris Hamilton, a 91-year-old retired middle-school principal, had started to notice some odd things happening in her life: She had stopped receiving all mail at her home of 50 years right off Las Cruces’ busy Main Street. She was locked out of all four of her bank accounts across town. Then, one morning in late August 2019, someone knocked on her door and presented her with a document issued by a judge, authorizing her “transport” to a nursing home. In disbelief, Hamilton got into her gold Nissan Altima an...