I have posted before regarding going on holiday and leaving MIL but another issue has arisen. MIL is 92 on her own in own property with early onset mixed dementia. She is self funding. She has carers 3 times a day mainly to sort out food and prompt medication. She can still get herself up washed of sorts and get herself to bed. She has no other family or friends who are able or willing to help. When we went away before I managed to persuade a neice who was local to act as an emergency number in the UK should the care agency have problems. The neice refuses to visit or make any other contact with her aunt as she had like many of us been on the end of MIL abuse well before the dementia diagnosis. On our last holiday MIL got no visits at all other than the carers. MIL refuses respite in fact she refuses to go out at all. We had a befriending service briefly but they quickly were given their marching orders by MIL.
The rest of hubbies family live in the USA and now we have found out that his nephew is seriously ill . We would like to visit for 2 weeks but MIL neice is unable to help us as she is moving away herself. So we have no one to rely on here other than the agency who obviously would be aware of our being abroad . MIL has not had a needs assessment so hubbie has written to social services to start the process. I'm just wondering if social services would be responsible for her welfare whilst we are away. Otherwise we would never be able to go anywhere again in this current situation. We both have POA h and w and financial
The rest of hubbies family live in the USA and now we have found out that his nephew is seriously ill . We would like to visit for 2 weeks but MIL neice is unable to help us as she is moving away herself. So we have no one to rely on here other than the agency who obviously would be aware of our being abroad . MIL has not had a needs assessment so hubbie has written to social services to start the process. I'm just wondering if social services would be responsible for her welfare whilst we are away. Otherwise we would never be able to go anywhere again in this current situation. We both have POA h and w and financial
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