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Quakerfriend

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2. My dear CountAllVotes, I'm so sorry
Wed Jul 14, 2021, 04:17 AM
Jul 2021

For what you’re going through right now.

If you are not his POA, I would say you should convince him to do the paperwork for that now- before he might be declared mentally incompetent in any way- before MD might give him a diagnosis of say for example ‘mild dementia’. You can get boilerplate copy of POA papers at Staples- if you want to try and avoid steep legal fees.

And, the good new is that as long as there is someone living in your house who is disabled, in any way, your house cannot be taken to pay for his care in a care facility. A social worker at a long term care facility told me that is the law.

In the end our system in the US really stinks.
Hopefully, with the dems in charge, it will change for the better! 🥰

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