James Pai lies in his hospital bed, his bone-thin body exposed for the video camera. Under his gown, he is clad only in a diaper. His arms and legs are covered with blood-red sores, and he urges the videographer, his lawyer, to get him out of the state veterans home where he has been placed. Last month, Pai, a former U.S. Navy diver, was a resident at the Ambrosio Guillen State Veterans Home in Northeast El Paso. Now, he is in a foster care home, where he has regained the lost weight. At the age of 79, he is slowed by Parkinson's disease, but from a padded living room chair, dressed in comfortable street clothes, he watches television, reads the paper and carries on lucid conversations. But his voice strains with emotion when he talks about treatment of the elderly and his time at Ambrosio Guillen, where he was wasting away.