Little Progress in Ensuring Protection for Incapacitated Elderly People
September 7, 2006 Little Progress in Ensuring Protection for Incapacitated Elderly People The United States Department of Aging asked the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to follow up on its 2004 report, "Guardianships: Collaboration Needed to Protect Incapacitated Elderly People," (GAO-04-655). This report covered what state courts do to ensure that guardians fulfill their responsibilities, what exemplary guardianship programs look like, and how state courts and federal agencies work together to protect incapacitated elderly people. For this testimony, GAO: Provided an overview and updated of the findings of this prior work  Discussed the status of a series of recommendations . . .
