I worry about her living alone. I worry about her health , she weighs 100 lbs and the dr said she has malnutrition. Her memory is not what it once was. She gets stubborn, nasty, and is a real b----- she has me and my sisters in tears. I have a nephew that is conning her into giving him money, we aren't talking thousands we are talking 10's of thousands. We fight because she insisted he needs help, he's 23. We have power of attorney but still she fight like a child when we say no more money. She gets so nasty that it wears us down and we give in, the she acts like nothing happened everything is wonderful
What mom wants, and how she prefers things comes on the list right after all her safety and wellbeing needs are met. Safety trumps everything.
You cannot leave a person with dementia alone. There is not a competent doctor or social worker who would say yes to that. Knowingly letting this happen is a bad position to be in.
Take away her checkbook, her ATM card, and anything that would allow her to spend money. You go over there, and collect everything. Take it home and put it in a safe. Or put it in a safety box at the bank. This is not a polite request. You sit her down and say there's been some problems with her money, and you have to have all her forms of payment to look into it. The end. No discussion. Put it all in a big ziploc bag, and it never leaves your hands again.
Assuming one of you has the power of attorney document, take that to the bank, and have every check issued to that nephew investigated.
This nephew may need to understand that he could be on the hook for fraud.
Fraud is real and fraud charges can happen to him. You can talk to the police about this, and find out how to get that money back for her care. So what if he's family. I sure as snot wouldn't just let that kind of money go. If she signed checks to him while incompetent, there's a problem.
Yes, people with dementia can be mean as a snake and twice as difficult. You are going to have to be mentally prepared to deal with it. You have to be the adults and make good decisions no matter how badly mom acts. Her brain is sick, and she can't control it anymore.
Talk to her doctor about her behaviors. Agitation and combativeness can be helped with different medications, but she might need to be somewhere supervised 24/7 for her own safety.
This site has all the where-to-start information you're going to need. Lord knows I did. Find the New to Caregiving section and read the articles.
Come back with questions, and this community is amazing with its knowledge & support! You're going to need it!
If she's diagnosed as malnourished and you don't do anything about it, I'd be concerned (as her POAs) that you and/or siblings could be held accountable for elder neglect. If she has dementia, which your profile says she does, she's not in her right mind. What she wants isn't as important as what she needs to be safe and healthy. She's not able to make those calls on her own with dementia.