aussiegenes asked:


My dad has always been a brilliant man. But due to a couple of small strokes he now has periods of confusion and is a very unsafe driver. He signs papers for anyone who asks but doesn’t understand what he’s signed. My mother had to go to the store where he’d done this and recover the papers and put them through the shredder. What do you do to gain control over someone who clearly has lost mental capacity to make sound judgements but can legally drive a car and sign papers?! He acts like a child at times but he can get into considerably more trouble than a child. We love him dearly and respect him but we have to protect him from himself and protect Mom from his bad decisions. He’s always been naiive and too trusting of people, and now it’s much more so; he’s very vulnerable to con men who prey on the elderly.

Logan