I'm very LC with my mum, my only sister has very recently gone NC with her (long back story). Our dad died years ago, no other family around. However both sister and I do have POA, which my mum set up not long ago.
So my mum rang me last night (first time in years!), mainly to complain about my sister not speaking to her! But a few alarm bells rang for me. She was getting names wrong of people she knew well, repeating herself a lot. Main concern is from what I can gather, some men were going to do some work on her roof and drove her to the cashpoint to get money out. It took a while to get the full story. But she says she doesn't know why she got in the van with them and that it was almost like they "hypnotised" her. Obviously no work has been done on her roof! I asked had she reported it to the police. She says a friend is going with her to do that. I also said she should go to the GP and she said she has and needs to have some sort of scan. Couldn't get much more out of her on that. But it looks like they'd be looking for signs of dementia?
Now to the point. I'm prepared to carry out the legal aspects of the POA but when it comes to any kind of care, well I'm not doing it. I don't live near her (sister is even further away) so we couldn't just "pop in" anyway. We both work full time. We're both struggling to make ends meet so we wouldn't be giving any financial support. So I'm wondering what will happen? What does happen to people who don't have someone to ferry them around to appointments, help them out etc?