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[quote=Anonymous]OP I'm one of the PPs who's BTDT.

1) You can't call around to doctors to find which one is seeing your dad - they can't give out that information unless the patient authorizes it. So unless your parents are willing to have you directly involved with his medical practitioners, you're not going to be able to use this route to get your dad off the road.

2) The fact that your parents visited a continuing care facility (with options for living independently as well as options for more care) is a great start. But you may need to be the driving force, so to speak. One of my siblings really pushed our father to make this move after his diagnosis led to losing his license. It was hard; my dad wasn't really sold and it was excruciating for all of us to see him leave his home (and community) of 40+ years. But it was such a great move for him: tons of social opportunities and all the support that he needed (for a fee of course.)

In retrospect I'm so grateful that my sibling is pushy and could be the PITA who got the ball in motion and didn't stop until the move was done. It's absolutely necessary and it's too hard/scary for your mom to do without some really forceful outside involvement. Let that be you, now, before you're all scrambling to respond to a crisis. Unfortunately that will come sooner than you think.[/quote]

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