My father in law who I am now POA for for months has been refusing to go to a hospital. No matter how much I beg. The past 2 months he has become bedridden. But was still eating and drinking as normal. but the past 2 weeks he has stopped eating enough. I finally had my dad come with me to his house to talk to him, after much discussing/forcing he has agreed to go to the hospital tomorrow. Could I have forced him to go to the hospital sooner against his will?
Also, it is great if you can just convince the parent you want to make sure you get checked out in case a chest xray or another lab test that urgent care or hospital can do to baseline any concerns. I think you can also call the nearby urgent care facility and ask for help and just by calling them and explaining your present concerns, urgent care nurse/rep will explain that you can explain to the parent that urgent care may be faster than hospital. Having two options/choices is better than one, but just depends on a lot of factors.
You are on the right track and the more experience you gain in having to know best option, the easier it will get to know you did the right thing. Great job engaging a second person in solving current issue.