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The simple answer to your question is:

The day I come onto talking point and ask the same question that you have asked is the day I will start looking very very seriously into CH.

In other...

Have already made a similar decision regarding my mum i.e. asked myself the question, what would mum have wanted ?

And therein lies the answer, i.e. mum would want to be operated on irrespective...

Agree with your every word Lin.

I say the next bit with a slight tone of sarcasm in my voice:

However, the mental capacity acts intimates that we should allow dementia sufferers to make...

Please check with credit card company or CAB but I am lead to believe that a credit card can only be issued to an individual and not joint, hence the NAME on the credit card is the person responsible...

I became an appointee for mums pension accidentally.

Mums pension changed from PO card to bank and mum couldn't explain why (bank trying for more business I think). Rang DWP to change pension from...

Your name USELESSDAUGHTER; you must be joking !

A caring and loving daughter that has acted in her dad's best interest, end of discussion !

Sorry to sound harsh, I don't mean to.

If acting...

And I thought I had problems !

How you have done what you have done for so long I will never understand.

I think I would have walked away from the whole situation a long long time ago, but I...

I have just sent you a private message in reply to this post

Tks

You are in our thoughts x x x

I have tears on one side with the wonderfull choice of hymns your mum has, whilst on the other side I have tears of laughter about her wonderfull friend Betty and her choice of literature ! The...

I echo Nimbus11.

Whilst I don't personally like equity release, it seems in your circumstances to be an option for serious consideration, hence my personal opinion is irrelevant.

Once upon a time, I was happily plodding along living a normal working life in TOTAL IGNORANCE to dementia, allowances, care, hospitals, care homes etc because I had no personal experience within my...

Hi Izzy

Mum was put on memantine/ebixa as the first drug she ever took for AD.

The drug didn't suit mum and has since been on Aricept and has been fine.

There are however lots of success...

Without sounding too negative, to stop mum making the calls in the first place I think is almost impossible.

SO

What can your friends do to stop receiving the calls is the question I would be...

June, you are in our thoughts x x x

Tina, you are in our thoughts x x x

From my experience working alongside my OH in a retirement complex am sad to say that visits to our elderly occupants were few and far between.

We put it down to a sign of modern times i.e. more...

Did very similar with my dad a few years ago now i.e. introduced carers as friends and put simply had to con my dad.

It worked for us but took a lot of imagination from the carers.

Perfect example of where companies may benefit from

http://www.dementiafriends.org.uk/

Hope you agree ?

Her family are in our thoughts

x x x

Quite a large document below but hope it helps

http://www.cps.gov.uk/legal/v_to_z/victims_and_witnesses_who_have_mental_health_issues_and_or_learning_disabilities_-_prosecution_guidance/

I have learned to not answer the question directly and tangent off the subject matter.

NOW..........I wonder what kind of future career opportunities might be open to me LOL !

A warm welcome to TP

The following 2 leaflets are worth a read:

http://www.alzheimers.org.uk/site/scripts/documents_info.php?documentID=160
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My mum completed and registered both LPA's with no specific conditions/restrictions in the document.

As I understand it, once registered the financial LPA can be used immediately (subject to any...

As live in carer for mum, I no longer worry about mums sleeping patterns because of her AD. I gave up reasoning what was NORMAL quite a while ago now.

Don't know in my case if it is a good or a...