Re: From Gail (fwd)

[robert <http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert>]

Maybe she should look at https://dementia-directive.org/ .

 > From: Noelle <noelle>
 > Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2022 10:33:49 -0700 (PDT)
 >
 > FYI
 > 
 >  > From: "Gail" <http://www.cox.net/~g3>
 >  > Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2022 09:53:03 -0700
 >  > 
 >  > Hi Noelle,
 >  > 
 >  > We hope that your recent back yard party went well.
 >  > 
 >  > I'm sending you this email now because the leader/facilitator of
 >  > the Caregiver Support Group I belong to recently suggested to
 >  > all of us attendees that we make written arrangements, if we
 >  > Caregivers die before our spouses or other family members who
 >  > have Dementia, that some family member or other person will take
 >  > over the care of the person who has Dementia. I hadn't thought
 >  > about doing this, so I'm glad that was suggested. Of course I'm
 >  > not expecting to die before Don does, but one never knows about
 >  > any unforeseen accidents, etc. to have that happen. In thinking
 >  > about all the family members and friends we have, you, Noelle,
 >  > in my opinion would be the best person to fill that
 >  > responsibility. You are the youngest and apt to live the longest
 >  > and live the closest to us (other than my brother, Scott, who I
 >  > don't think would make a good candidate/Caregiver), and you are
 >  > Don's daughter. If such a case took place, I assume Don would
 >  > have to somehow move up to where-I-live in a near by to you place
 >  > that offers good quality care to those with Dementia, so that
 >  > you could visit him frequently. So far fortunately Don has
 >  > remained stable in maintain mode in not having his Dementia
 >  > progress, but we don't know about the future. Last week he had a
 >  > follow up appointment with his Neurologist who prescribed an
 >  > increase in dosage of his patch medication of Rivastigmine
 >  > because it was time to do that, not because he had increased
 >  > symptoms. Evidently there are 3 dosage stages of this patch
 >  > medication. He had been on the lowest dosage to see how he
 >  > tolerated it which was well. He is now on the middle stage and
 >  > so far he has had no side effects and tolerating it well to keep
 >  > his Dementia from getting worse.
 >  > 
 >  > Please let me know soon if you would accept this possible future
 >  > responsibility so that I/we can figure out how to put that in
 >  > legal writing adding to the legal documents we already have.
 >  > 
 >  > Love,
 >  > 
 >  > Gail
 >  > 
 >  > http://www.cox.net/~g3