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[quote=Anonymous]First check to see if she has a UTI. My Mom's dementia got significantly worse when she had a UTI. Next, get yourself access to her doctors. When my Mom had gotten to this point, it was really easy to get her to sign stuff. Tell her its a health insurance form she has to sign. (Therapeutic lying)

Next is to get a handle on all the medication she is taking. If (when) she has to go to the emergency room, it's really important that you know what medication she is on. Also, unless you or another caregiver are giving her the medication, I can almost guarantee that she is either skipping doses or taking multiple doses in one day. My Mom kept getting really low blood pressure. We figured out she was taking multiple doses of her medication. (she had a long standing habit of filling her weekly medication container. So we kept filling it for her. But if it was put anywhere that she could see it, she would take a doses, even if she had already taken it. )

Next is make sure you have access to all her bank and bill accounts. Either through setting up online access (logging in as her) and/or getting your name added to the account. And make sure her bank accounts are set up as Payable on Death or Joint tenancy with rights of survivorship. My Dad had all his accounts set up properly accept one. And it has a little bit more money than the state threshold, so now it has to go through probate.

Also make sure she has a will, living will, POA, etc set up.

As for AL and MC, if there is a question about where to place someone, they usually will put them in MC. Transitions are hard, so it's better to put her in MC so she doesn't have to move. Also, dementia often gets worse when moved from a familiar area. They often have developed coping mechanism in their familiar home that they don't have in a new location.  [/quote]

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