Hi everyone,
My mum has a condition called Primary Progressive Aphasia which is a form of Frontal Temporal Lobe Dementia. It's an unusual illness, insofar as she has lost all power of speech and also struggles to communicate more than a few words in writing, but her ability to reason and make decisions is relatively unaffected and she can still drive (just) and lives independently with a partner who is there rather sporadically.
My question relates to Health and Welfare POA.
My mum has a condition called Primary Progressive Aphasia which is a form of Frontal Temporal Lobe Dementia. It's an unusual illness, insofar as she has lost all power of speech and also struggles to communicate more than a few words in writing, but her ability to reason and make decisions is relatively unaffected and she can still drive (just) and lives independently with a partner who is there rather sporadically.
My question relates to Health and Welfare POA.
When my mum was diagnosed, she gave my sister and I financial POA, but didn’t want to do the health and welfare one. I think she was worried because her own mum ended up unhappy in a care home. A few years later on, I think she still has capacity, just, and I would obviously like her to do the H&W one, so we can do our best to carry out her wishes. I’ve tried in various ways to get her to communicate those wishes, but she has dismissed me so far and we are in the last chance saloon as far as her communication skills and capacity are concerned. I’m working on a picture-based conversation about future living arrangements and care and haven’t given up hope yet, but here’s the question....if I fail to get H&W POA, what are the implications? She’s just turned 80, so part of me is hoping that it’s unlikely that doctors would enforce unpleasant life-sustaining treatment on her? She has good financial resources, so we should hopefully be able to keep her at home with live-in care if that’s what she chooses.....what’s the worst I can expect if I can’t pull this off??
Thanks in advance for any advice you have for me.
F