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Elder-caregivers

Wellstone ruled

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1. No fun walking on egg shells.

Reply to Ilsa (Original post)

Thu Mar 5, 2020, 09:27 PM

Mar 2020

So common with dementia patients to go off into never never land. Whom every is or has Power of Attorney has to step up for the sake of the family. Know your pain,bee down that road more than once.

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Bad news in the family has turned my MIL into an ugly person. [View all] Ilsa Mar 2020 OP

No fun walking on egg shells. Wellstone ruled Mar 2020 #1

Dealing with the irrational and sometimes viscous hostility that can come enough Mar 2020 #2

Does your town or county have a welfare office? Social worker? 3Hotdogs Mar 2020 #3

I'm probably going to call a social worker Ilsa Mar 2020 #4

Were either her, or her husband veterans of V.N., Korea or WW II? 3Hotdogs Mar 2020 #5

No assets, except for two small Ilsa Mar 2020 #6

Fiat wait for the social worker because there are 3Hotdogs Mar 2020 #7

We are not looking for residential dementia care yet, but we should Ilsa Mar 2020 #9

Change "Flat" to Don't in the above post 3Hotdogs Mar 2020 #8