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We have been taking care of his grandmother for the last 2 years. She has dementia and is also an amputee. We get no help and we both work full time jobs. We actually moved in to her home to help her but we have just had our fill and think it is another family members turn. She has 3 children that live in the same town as her and another who lives 3 hours away, we get absolutely no help, we can't go out on dates or go away for a weekend without having to bring her or only going away for a few hours. Our name is not on anything and we do not get paid, would we be held liable if we told other family members we were moving back to our home and someone else had to take care of her?

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Family members should meet and discuss what the care will be ongoing and who will do it. If no one will discuss or step up then grandmother should be hospitalized and it should be made clear that you cannot accept her back in your care, and are unable physically to do the care anymore. Care will need to be sought by outside facility at that point. When you meet family set up a timeline in which these issues need to be addressed. Someone will need to accept POA to help with the financial for the person. If you do not wish to become deeply involved I would refuse to take that on. The state will appoint guardianship if the family is unable to have a member accept that responsibility. An hour of time with an elder law attorney would be well worth it as you move forward now.
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dawggirl0808 Jul 2019
Thank you so much, her daughter actually has POA over her financially so I would think she would have to take responsibility right?
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You're incredibly kind to have taken on this responsibility---but you have absolutely no legal 'responsibility' to continue to doing so.

Time for a family meeting (plan on it getting hot and some angry word spoken). In fact, it wouldn't hurt to get a disinterested 3rd party to step in and correlate the discussion--but I don't know how you'd facilitate that!

Minimally, make a detailed LIST of the things you want to discuss. Make it a roundtable discussion. Let each person talk for 5 minutes. Then move on.

Maybe, and that's a HUGE maybe, you can work things out with a minimum of fuss. But plan on it getting ugly. I don't know your family's dynamics.

You are NOT financially, emotionally or physically responsible to continue to care for Gma.

I wish you all the luck in the world. My 2 attempts at this (simply getting paid help for mother twice a week) resulted in our family fracturing into 6 separate segments. I have not spoken to the brother who has mother 'captive' for over 2 years.
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dawggirl0808 Jul 2019
Thank you! We have tried and did our best, her doctor even said its the best health shes been in since we have been caring for her, but its getting hard for us, her daughter has POA and is the one thats been basically calling the shots but there is so much drama and grandma is getting harder to take care of for us and me and my husband have just had enough.
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