Citations:granny dumping


 * 1992, Granny Dumping by the Thousands, The New York Times (29 March 1992);
 * The American College of Emergency Physicians estimates that 70,000 elderly Americans were abandoned last year by family members unable or unwilling to care for them or pay for their care. Social workers call this phenomenon "granny dumping." But they are reluctant to condemn those who do the dumping. Instead, they paint a harrowing portrait of millions of Americans who are near the breaking point with the burden of caring for their ill and elderly parents.