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[quote=Anonymous]In my case my mom was exhibiting signs of cognitive decline and I started the process of moving her into assisted living after it was clear she couldn’t drive. We did have an interim period of 1.5 years in which she had household help during the day. By the time she was officially diagnosed she was considered moderate stage (4) Alzheimer’s. She is still in assisted living and does fine but she would not really be able to handle cooking shopping finances home maintenance etc.. lots of those things were slipping for a long time.!m now her only responsibility is getting dressed and going to meals. She has help bathing and gets medication given to her and someone cleans and does her laundry and I take her to all appointments shopping and finances (I hired someone in addition to assisted living to take her out to cvs, do her laundry etc).
For your dad you need to address safety and activities of daily life. Can he get by with someone helping during the day or is he no longer safe alone? I would definitely try to see what’s happening with bills finances etc because a lot of that is where my moms issues happened first and we didn’t know until it was too late in many cases (she stopped paying ltc insurance, lost a huge amount of money to unscrupulous scammers , her jewelry was stolen, she had loans taken out in her name and never said anything when the notices appears etc).[/quote]

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