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husband with off again, on again cognitive impairment, stressful
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@judimahoney I am finding the whole process to be heartbreaking. My husband is still in relatively early stages of MCI but I am seeing more small changes every 6 months or so. He has ordered various things off a menu then claims he got the wrong order, even though In heard what he ordered. His memory and word retrieval is worse, and dealing with technology is horrible. Every night there is an issue with the remote control for the tv. Every time something doesn't work properly, from operator error, he think the item is broken and we need to buy a new one.
Yesterday I brought up the power of attorney issue for the future and he became very upset. He wouldn't talk to me for 24 hours. He said I wanted to control all of the money.
All I can say is that I feel for everyone...This is not easy!
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@rutgersmom123
Well, from experience please give the Power of Attorney a revisit. They can't sign them once they have dementia.
Legally/ethically they can no longer sign legal documents if they do not understand the contents; hurry!
Good luck. 🫂
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@rutgersmom123 PS, you can't bring up the Power of attorney, you just have to make the appointment. That's what I just did. Dragged him there. and now we have to go back. How do you reason with someone who can't reason? So that mean's we have to be the reasoning. My husband in early stages too, but he's on lequembe infusions. I'm not sure if your husband is on anything. But I'm not sure the infusions are really do much right now. Time will tell. I go through the same thing with technology. I had to call our PC guy to come in and help him the other day. It's just too much. So we programmed, all the go-to accounts he goes into, in one place. Lets' see how long that lasts. I go through the exact same thing with the remotes. and we're in a rental, so he can't figure out the rental system easily, even though I drew a picture. It's okay if he doesn't talk to you, mine, didn't either, he went to bed, woke up, and I told him, he wasn't very nice the day before. and that I loved him and was sorry about that. that's all we can do, while we plan, and make the necessary arrangments we have to, because we are doing this alone at home with a partner who doesn't always understand. Best, Karla