SCHWARTZ, Chief Judge.
In resolving one of the most agonizing consequences of an all-too-familiar modern tragedy, we hold that the transfer of the elderly ward from her own home to a nursing or old age facility may not be ordered in the absence of an affirmative showing, which was not presented below, that such a placement is required for her proper care and well-being.
The ward in question, Mrs. Beatrice Greenfield, who is now eighty-one years of age, was...
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