[sully777]

Neglect is replacing a french chef with a cook? Neglect is replacing expensive cold creams with petroleum jelly-based to clean off the make up?

Oy vey gott! Gott im Himmel!

[Cecily]

She is a millionaire who has been extremely generous to others. Who does her son think he is to downgrade his mother's style of living? Why shouldn't she have what she is used to in her remaining years? It isn't sonny boy's money yet.

There is also more to the neglect charges than what you have mocked.

[reformedliberal]

She is 104. At that age skin thins. The lighter *expensive* creams moisturize much better than petroleum jelly , given her age.

After spending her life eating well-cooked food, why should this old lady be subjected to pap and to foods like liver that are high in cholesterol?

And to go so far as to keep her from her dogs is just mean, cruel and without reason.

She has spent almost 40 years distributing the Astor trust to worthy causes. It isn't too much to expect her elderly son would allow her to continue to live as a human being.

It isn't as though her own personal $45M isn't going to outlast her or that the son is poverty stricken or even that he has much time left to spend the money. This is cruelty and the son has some sort of emotional agenda.

I am glad there are laws against elderly abuse. It can happen to anyone, rich or poor or in-between.