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As others have suggested, get a pill box. Contact his doctor and see about assistance for him. Most health insurance will cover certain home visits if the doctor agrees. Medicare and/Medicaid also has options but you will need (or someone) will need to be his health care proxy and it might take some effort.Come to Florida and have him sign you (or someone trusted) as his health care proxy and POA. If you have siblings, get them involved as well. It's usually best to have someone in charge of the medical and someone else in charge of his finances. If he's forgetting his meds, he's probably forgetting his bills too.It's a tough situation. Obviously, if you or someone in your family can be closer to him, it would be in his best interest. If he does not have a health care proxy and POA, he is being left open to theft and other nasty things that some of us learned the hard way :(. He can be taken as a ward of the state if he can be deemed incompetent so get that signed off first. You can get the form at Staples and have a notary (Amscot and banks have notaries) sign off on it. Legalzoom is online and you can get the forms there. Too many people take advantage of the elderly so protect him. POAs can be limited but, if the wrong person gets this, there isn't really much protection. My grandmother was robbed blind by her supposed POA. Be involved as much as you can.

Absolutely!I have had heated exchanges with others here on Quora with those who think Joe is demented… yet the maniacal ramblings and rants of cadet “best words” bone spurs somehow seem not totally unhinged to them.I have an observation. Dolt 45 took a dementia screening. Guess what: no one asks for a dementia screening. A doctor mandates it. And it’s 30 questions. If you are asked to answer additional questions, it’s because there was a problem. Regardless of the result, the patient is told they did really well.My mother, who had frontotemporal dementia, failed the Montreal Cognitive Screening, so her neurologist pulled out coloring-book type pictures. She was asked to describe what was going on in the pictures (a person washing dishes was about to drop one). She couldn’t describe the scenes, yet her doctor told her that she did “a great job!” (As her health care proxy, the doctor called me later with his assessment. Mom was never told she had dementia. What would be the purpose?)Mom remembered lots of stories, and she spoke perfectly well. She had us all fooled about her dementia (including her doctor) for a long time. She would start a story about her trip to Florida, but she could not tell you where she lived, what day it was, or what common objects were. She never stuttered. As her dementia advanced, she would mix up words: horse and rose, chair and bed, etc. Then her sentence structure started to suffer. She’d get all the words out, but they started to get rearranged. I learned to “speak her language.” She would say “I saw out the on top! Oh, so beautiful, you could see cars!” That meant she had a visit to the top floor of her assisted living facility which had a beautiful panoramic view of a harbor. She would get “car” and “boat” confused, so I knew what she meant.A stutter is not at all indicative of a cognitive problem.And that’s what Joe Biden has: a diagnosed stutter.The difference between Biden and the orange turd is Biden has been up front about having a minor speech impediment. What’s tRump’s excuse for his delusional insanity?

Q: What way have you used to end a long time estrangement between an adult child and their (senior age) parent?It had been 15-years since I spoke to my father and his elderly mother (who I was close to and he had stopped speaking to 10-years earlier)became ill. Since I was the one visiting her and care for her in her own home, when she needed to be put in the hospital, I needed next of kin permission for a health care proxy.I called my father and stated plain and simple. “Grandma is in the hospital. I have been caring for her the last X years and need you to sign a health care proxy so that I may continue as her medical advocate and care for her.”Well, he not only refused to turn over proxy, he flew up from Florida to New York, took me to lunch and we discussed what needed to be done. Over the next 2-years or so, we co-cared for my grandmother (his mother) and upon his death (he predeceased her by a few months) I went to court to be named her guardian.My relationship with my father healed. We had decades of silence over the years and despite my still feeling incomplete about some things, I believe that e healed our karmic bonds and used this lifetime to release one another from any debts that may have lingered from other lives. We developed a relationship that was fit for a father and daughter. I feel complete.