As many of our members are now reaching older age, you may want to peruse numerous reports of how perfectly capable, old adults are stripped of all their rights, placed into unwanted and abusive "guardianships" of strangers, and then isolated, medicated and robbed by court appointed "private guardians" that are chummy with corrupt court officials. As the elderly issues are political backwater, they rarely surface, but when they do it is appalling to see how bad it is.
Even if you are not rich by any measure, say have a $300,000 nest egg, a court appointed guardian will feast on your money until you are bled dry, and then "withdraw" from guardianship. Your beloved relatives and children will be dismissed by crony judges as "greedy elder abusers".
A quick google search will find you good information about numerous cases.
Some links out of too many: