A Missouri mother says her experience with the guardianship system has inspired her to push for changes in state law to protect families like hers.

When Twila Foley brought a Christmas gift for her son, Christopher, to his nursing facility in Plattsburg, Missouri, she was not allowed to enter the building’s lobby.

Instead, she watched him open his gift — a pillow with a picture of his dog, Oakley, printed on it — through a glass door.

Christopher asked the aide who accompanied him if he could go out to hug her. The aide said no.

“So I watched as he opened his present alone in a skilled nursing facility, and I thought of the Christmas dinners that he used to have, filled with family and friends,” Twila said. “I thought about all the things that he is no longer allowed to do and how that

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