
I read this article this morning and shook my head. This is a prime example of the absolute stupidity of letting someone who clearly has cognitive decline, call the shots! I'm just baffled this was allowed to happen.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/florida-disabled-mother-rescued-from-flooded-home-former-north-chicago-police-officer-during-hurricane-ian?dicbo=v2-254ce03ba8265518e97e6ef8c43b9764
Adult children are between a rock and a hard place. Stubborn parents can put us all at risk over their stupid pride. More adult children need to learn it is ok to stand up to a parent.
I also sort of pause that the very end of the story is a plea for money, since mom supposedly didn't have renter's insurance...
Just seems a little odd to me. Maybe the whole family suffers from terrible judgement issues. Or maybe this is a bit "staged" to get sympathetic people to donate money.
While I am glad that all went well I do hope that she understands that she put others at risk making this decision and that the son also realizes he put his son's life at risk.
Makes you wonder how many lives that were lost were due to a poor decision like "riding out the storm"
Her last 5 years were lived in a fine local residential care center, loved by her caregivers, and visited every day by family.
Although she was incapable of independent living after her hip was broken, she did a darn good job before that, even with significantly diminished capacity.
I as her POA, have no regrets.
Her care cost almost a million dollars in the last 5 years, money made entirely by my father and saved entirely by her herself, and I do not begrudge her one cent of it.
”Poor decisions” on the part of the elderly can be a source of despair to the children who love them, but I am content with how the course of her life played out.
We all have to remember that some questions have no easy answers, and not all decisions result in happy endings.