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Elderly parents

Increasingly quiet DM
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ACTING ON BEHALF
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Where can I get cheaper replacement lenses for my elderly mum?
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Prepaid payment card
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Do you report a hospital stay to Pension Credit?
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Awarded CHC but care agency not contracted to care board
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Care Home Funding & LA
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I’m not at that stage yet
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Exercises for frailty
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Question about state pension and elderly women who didn't work
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In battle with Social Workers over parents!!
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Can anyone recommend a personal alarm for the elderly?
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Any suggestions of great care homes somewhere between Richmond and Croydon?
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Mother facing surgery
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Signing LPA in correct order - cheating
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Has anyone used home sensors instead of a pendant alarm?
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Granny Annexe in garden - things to consider?
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Elderly woman not eating
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Impending gloom
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Help? I'm drowning....
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I really wish someone would listen to me!
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Solicitor running POA long term?
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Practical ways a far-away sibling can support elderly parent care
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Has anyone recorded their elderly parents' life stories or memoirs?
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Bath lift or similar - recommendation please
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Difference between care home and nursing home?
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Mum expects me to move home and become her driver
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Hospital Appointment help
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She won’t press the buzzer
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How long can this last phase take im feeling so drained now
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Does anyone have any experience with a parent having Paranoid Dementia?
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Registering POA (ancient non-digital version)
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Managing house left in will but with partner resident after death
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I’ve stopped helping with all care for DM I can’t do it anymore
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Mother refuses potential future care, wants me to drop my life for her.
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Mum now around 60 hours into active dying
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Carers are really bad and it’s affecting mums life.
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How do I choose an electric wheelchair??
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Care home bill after Dad sent to a discharge to assess bed from hospital. Not fast tracked as no one completed paperwork.
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How to set boundaries when caring for a demanding elderly parent
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Care home staff ratios
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Where do I start looking for a carer?
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Missing medication - concerned there’s a thief.
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Update: SIL wants me to talk to in-laws about support
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Care needs assessment
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'False memories' with dementia- any experience?
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Cockroach cafe - Spring in autumn
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Renting parents house out - in best interests?
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Dad with Parkinson's - only 67 but declining and won't do physio/exercise
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Dad’s upsetting comments after Mum’s death are affecting our relationship
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