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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You are not legally responsible for your mom. Get her a social worker through APS so she can be cared for.[/quote]

Wow - what is wrong with you?!  OP is doing everything she can to give her mother a decent standard of care and going through all channels that any of us can think about.

I hope your children care more about you than you do your own mother.  [/quote]

While the PP could have said more tactfully or expanded a bit, she has a point.  Getting the OP's mother a social worker will allow her to have access to programs at reduced cost or even free.  We all pay taxes for services for people like the Op's mom, she should take advantage of what it available.  It does not mean the mom has to move out- but it may mean the there are resources out there for the OP to tap- sop she and her DH are not hit with the financial load as well as the emotional load. [/quote]

Thank you.  We already have a social worker who has been helping us.  There are very few resources for Alzheimer's and Dementia sufferers.  And then there are the horrors - the state run facilities where these once vibrant and self-sufficient people walk around in soiled pants or are so drugged up they don't move which would be my mother's only option if not for us at this point.  There is nothing like Alzheimer's Daycare or respite care in our state for Alzheimer's sufferers.  Believe me, we are "tapping" every resource known to man at this point.  We have also gotten help for the Alzheimer's Association.  The programs and assistance you are talking about do not exist.

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Where do you live?  
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