My husband, post stroke with vascular dementia, has been in long term care, dementia unit, for 4 months. The facility is top notch with very caring staff. Husband is difficult to manage at times and very insistent that he wants to go home. There is no way I could handle him at home emotionally or physically, even with help as he gets verbally/emotionally abusive and can be a danger to himself as he thinks he’s more physically capable than he is. He’s fallen multiple times because he ignores the staffs instruction to ask for assistance. I have POA, but the Social Worker, at the facility, states that since he continues to want to go home, and Medicaid is pending, that I may have to seek Conservatorship to legally hold him there. Is this true? Isn’t POA enough? He is not safe to come home. If he came home, I would leave. That’s how much it scares me. We are both 72.
The nursing home or you can file for emergency guardianship and conservatorship but if he is competent you will not be successful.
Further along in the document it designates me as conservator if one needs to be appointed.
I will make sure the institute has read these thoroughly.
Thank you about the “ The emergency conservator and/or guardianship”
Medicaid pending is a turn-off for some places. Good luck on finding good alternatives!