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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You said in your set up that your mom was slow to even raise the diagnosis. Now you are going to let her control the timing of taking him off the road?

Call the Dr or DMV this week! You have some responsibility here, as the healthy person who has recognized this danger to others. [/quote]

Yes- I realize I have some responsibility here, otherwise I wouldn't be posting for advice. Thank you for trying to make me out to be an irresponsible ass; that was helpful.

As stated- I don't know my Dad's doctor's name; he just started seeing this particular doctor a couple months ago. I either need to call around the city where the doctor is located to try to see if I can determine where he is a patient (the doctor is located in a city with a population of 300K, so I'm not so sure how hard this will be, nor if any practice can disclose over the phone that my father is a patient), or wait to next month and angle to go to his doctor's appointment with he and my Mom.  Contacting the DMV can get his licenses suspended, but that won't do much really if he still has access to his keys. That is the point. All the things you suggested I do accomplish nothing if my Dad still has access to his car keys. I need to convince my Mom to take the keys, and if she won't, then I'm going to have to do it when I'm down there next month.

And yes, my Mom has her head in the sand. They are going out of town this weekend, and my Mom stated, "it will be good to get in the car and get away from all this for a few weeks...".  As if by leaving the location they'll be able to escape the Alzheimer's.  Especially since travel in the past year -18 months any travel they have done seems to escalate his memory loss.

And yes, my folks are going on a road trip. My Mom's plan is do a majority of the driving, except for the more "rural" parts, which she thinks my Dad should still be able to handle. SMH. I wish I was making this all up. I have offered repeatedly to come with to help out and have been shot down every single time. [/quote]

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