She has mild to moderate dementia and mobility issues, but she is pretty determined. She says I don't trust her. Guess she may be right! She has been at the ALF for only 1-1/2 months, getting more used to it, but she still thinks she can go home. She doesn't like it when I have told her the reality, that unless something drastic happens (improvement) she is not going home. That won't happen. There is no one there to take care of her and she needs 24/7 care. On the flip side, she says she just wants her ID so she can feel like a person. Legally I suppose she has a right to her ID. Do I just take a chance and hand it to her?
Her dementia is now at the stage that she can't write or dial a phone but it's been a rocky road, always on edge dreading what she'd get up to next.
You're right to be concerned about scams. Unfortunately my elderly father was scammed out of $60,000. It happens.
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