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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I found this article shocking. This is what I’d be worried about, and taking steps to prevent, if I was the OP.

https://wapo.st/3MsheUE
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Chilling. While this is not a new story, glad that WaPo is reporting on it and will continue to do so.[/quote]

Yes, it's chilling, but I having been at this a long time and having been in support groups and talking to my friends there is plenty of financial abuse, corruption and exploitation WITHIN families. In fact most of us are dealing with it and the person turns the elder against you, the one not taking the money.

Dementia is awful in every way and we really need to allow people the right to decide they don't want to go down that road. If my husband is gone, I would like the option to give my money to my kids and charity without descending into a paranoid, spiteful, angry, violent and irrational tyrant.

I rarely see stories about what dealing with angry, paranoid, hostile dementia does to family members. You don't even need the person living in your home. You can have hired caregivers and they will still call you up with accusations, threaten you and lash out when you visit and throw ever verbal spear they can at your heart. I should not have to chose my own method and hope for the best to pass with dignity if i get the diagnosis. I should have the right to do it medically and properly say goodbyes and make plans for it. [/quote]

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