How many stories will it take before the authorities do anything.

He wants to see her, she wants to see him. She does not want to stay in a nursing home, but the nursing home has her under house arrest.  Doctors and nurses admit she is competent. Yet, she is imprisoned in a nursing home, the gulags, ghettos, and slums for the elderly from which death is the only escape.  Human and civil rights quickly disappear as attorneys and the nursing homes “take it all” and accuse family members and friends who would charge nothing to little to care for the elderly, as being the culprits, when they are nothing but criminals charging 10,000 to 15,000 per month or whatever they can get, while refusing to let the elder go home and stay with a relative.

http://www.wcvb.com/news/man-accused-of-taking-woman-from-nursing-home-heads-to-court/39656180

This man was finally released on his own recognicanze but probably faces serious charges.  He loves his friend. She loves him.  But their fate is sealed by a locked down nursing home where she cannot escape and will likely never see the light of day.