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<blockquote data-quote="witzend" data-source="post: 101765" data-attributes="member: 99"><p>This is going to sound awful, but unfortunately I speak from a painful family experience.</p><p></p><p>Does your mom have a will? Is it concrete? Where does T stand in the will? I would be very watchful that T doesn't take her to an attorney and have her change the will. Long story short, this happened with my great aunt and uncle who were 78 and 85. She had alzheimers and he had a severely debilitating stroke. Neighbors took her to a lawyer, cut off the family, and in the end the argument was made - successfully in that we had to settle rather than let the lawyers eat up the estate that they needed to pay for their medical care - that she had been competent when she went to the attorney (talked to him for 1.2 hours, he was paid $32,000 for talking daily to the neighbors for 2.5 months), competent to hire the neighbors at the rate of 40 hours a day, 24 hours a day for 2.5 months ($72,000) (how on earth did she wander off and get brought to the police station by a stranger in her jammies on a rainy November night?); competent to sign over their truck and boat, and only "developed alzheimer's as a result of the family's interference with her wishes" because we didn't have a diagnosis on paper before they took her to the attorney's office. Her "sudden deterioration due to family influence" made her incompetent to fire the attorney or the neighbors. The neighbors made fast friends with the idiot Senior Services worker, who admitted that they were convicted felons, but were sure that the neighbors had Betsy and Ron's (Their names were Bessie and Rod) best interest at heart because the wife is "such a dear person". </p><p></p><p>Auntie died while in their care, and Uncle lived unable to speak or communicate in any way for 6 years in a less than fabulous nursing home after they had to spend down what was left of their life savings in order to pay for.</p><p></p><p>Do what you can to get mom diagnosis'd before brother dearest takes her to a lawyer.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="witzend, post: 101765, member: 99"] This is going to sound awful, but unfortunately I speak from a painful family experience. Does your mom have a will? Is it concrete? Where does T stand in the will? I would be very watchful that T doesn't take her to an attorney and have her change the will. Long story short, this happened with my great aunt and uncle who were 78 and 85. She had alzheimers and he had a severely debilitating stroke. Neighbors took her to a lawyer, cut off the family, and in the end the argument was made - successfully in that we had to settle rather than let the lawyers eat up the estate that they needed to pay for their medical care - that she had been competent when she went to the attorney (talked to him for 1.2 hours, he was paid $32,000 for talking daily to the neighbors for 2.5 months), competent to hire the neighbors at the rate of 40 hours a day, 24 hours a day for 2.5 months ($72,000) (how on earth did she wander off and get brought to the police station by a stranger in her jammies on a rainy November night?); competent to sign over their truck and boat, and only "developed alzheimer's as a result of the family's interference with her wishes" because we didn't have a diagnosis on paper before they took her to the attorney's office. Her "sudden deterioration due to family influence" made her incompetent to fire the attorney or the neighbors. The neighbors made fast friends with the idiot Senior Services worker, who admitted that they were convicted felons, but were sure that the neighbors had Betsy and Ron's (Their names were Bessie and Rod) best interest at heart because the wife is "such a dear person". Auntie died while in their care, and Uncle lived unable to speak or communicate in any way for 6 years in a less than fabulous nursing home after they had to spend down what was left of their life savings in order to pay for. Do what you can to get mom diagnosis'd before brother dearest takes her to a lawyer. [/QUOTE]
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