It is not discretionary and it is not a judgement call and there is no version where you sit on it.

Adult Protective Services opened a case on the twenty-sixth of September.

A caseworker telephoned my grandmother’s house on the thirtieth and spoke to her for nine minutes.

Margaret Henderson told that caseworker that nothing had happened, that there was no concern, and that she did not require any services.

She said that on the thirtieth of September, eight days after she had written would not sign in a notebook for the nineteenth time.

The case was closed on the twenty-ninth of October.