Dear dsulli@gte.net My e-mail address is kdesjar@rcsreg.com, I received your
advice and found it helpful and will pass along to family members. Right
after I received your e-mail I got a e-mail from Pam saying her Mother had
passed away Dec 2, 2000. Did someone get my e-mail from you by mistake?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Deborah J. Sulli" <djsulli@gte.net>
To: <caretalk@asktransitions.com>
Sent: Saturday, March 24, 2001 8:45 PM
Subject: Re: Question: Advice on issues concerning my Elderly parent
> Dear Kdesfjar:
>
> A few questions you need to answer regarding your mother:
>
> Is she a danger to herself and others?
>
> If she is a danger, is the threat immediate and how serious (forgetting to
> turn off the stove)
>
> How are her cognitve skills -Does she know what day it? Who the President
> is? Where she lives? What time of day it is? These are questions included
in
> the Mini Mental Status Examination (MMSE) to determine whether a person is
> functioning at a level to allow for self- determination.
>
> If her cognitive skills are in-tact (she can answer questions above) then
> you may have very little recourse at this time. Of course you are
concerned,
> but there are laws which protect an individual's right to
> self-determination.
>
> If on the other hand, if she cannot answer the questions above then it may
> be time to take her to a Geriatric Assessment Doctor (usually located
within
> major hospitals). If she refuses to go, and she is in imminent danger to
her
> self or others-you should contact Adult Protective Services, an emergency
> service located in your county's Area Agency of Agency (all COUNTIES IN
USA
> HAVE THESE GOVERNMENT OFFICES). If they agree with you at least initially,
> they will send a caseworker to investigate and based on his/her finidings
> your mother can be involuntarilary committed for psych evaluation. The
> evaluation may make recommendations to the court that your mother is
> incapacitated and that a guardian should be appointed to oversee her
affairs
> and to sign papers to have her institutionalized in a nursing home, etc.
>
> Debbie Sulli
> djsulli@gte.net
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <kdesjar@rcsreg.com>
> To: <caretalk@asktransitions.com>
> Sent: March, 23, 2001 6:49 PM
> Subject: Question: Advice on issues concerning my Elderly parent
>
> > I am in desperate need of advice on how to handle several issues with my
> > elderly Mother. Mother is 76, living alone and is mental depressed and
> > is physically unwell. Some of her problems: She has lost 75 lbs in a
> > year. She has severe hearing loss(the family has bought her hearing
> > aids, she won't use). She has had partial dentures put in(never been to
> > a dentist in her lifetime)and won't go back for necessary adjustments.
> > She has not seen a physician(regular doctor)for 42 years(last baby)and
> > refuses to go for a checkup. Financially she has run up several credit
> > cards to the limit and will not admit she is in trouble. Her house is
> > paid for and she could sell and move to a smaller house, but she thinks
> > my Dad's spirit lives at the house(he died 25 years ago)and she won't
> > leave. The family has offered to have her live with any one of us-she
> > refuses. The question is-do we wait until an ambulance is called because
> > she won't be looked at by Doctor's? How do we handle her housing
> > situation as she can't keep up the house? Thanks for the advice
> >
> >
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