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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here. Thanks for your responses.

Just to give a little more background, our mom refuses to believe it's Alzheimer's vs. dementia. Maybe there is little to no difference practically, but she thinks he has "mild cognitive impairment" despite him having participated in an Alzheimer's clinical trial where the paperwork said "you have been enrolled in this clinical trial for an Alzheimer's drug because you have been diagnosed with Alzheimer's."

He has been involuntarily hospitalized after expressing suicidal thoughts, is constantly falling down stairs (fell last week and broke his tailbone) and tripping, and is raging at her (F you,  this is all your fault, you want all my money, etc.).  Yet, she claims he is a totally unique person that no one with any training in memory care issues will be able to handle, so that's her excuse for why she won't seek some in-home help.  Meanwhile, her blood pressure is sky high and she is one moment away from a breakdown herself.

[b]The good news is that they have plenty of money and a wealth management company to handle it.  At this point, it's more about her not wanting to outsource anything to the point of it taking her down[/b].[/quote]

Fascinating how your post is concerned with whether or not she can be sued (and the money wiped out!) as opposed to the welfare of your father.[/quote].

OP here. I'm sorry if I gave the impression that I'm more concerned about their money than I am about my father.  Of course we are desperately concerned for our father, but the reality is that our mother is the gatekeeper and his spouse, so she is the one in charge of his welfare at this point.  We are trying to motivate her by all means possible to care for herself so that he can receive adequate care himself via her decisions and she needs to know that all my dad's hard financial work over the years could be wiped out if something were to happen. I don't know how else to get through to her. She's determined to have him age in place but she can't do it alone, even if she thinks she can.[/quote]

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