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Statins that seems to be gaining more and
more momentum
With public, rejection of the science the authorities need to
Ask for a renewed
Testing and evaluation of these
drugs. Instead of patting everybody on the head that want answers, saying we"we know best".
I'm glad to have helped. If your dad does not allow someone to be designated Medical and Durable POA before something major happens to him or he becomes mentally incompetent to handle his own affairs in a business like manner, then he and everyone else is in a bad situation where no one has the legal authority to do anything for his benefit. If he, like my mother, has business and financial matters separate from your step-mother then no one will have the legal authority to do anything. Does he have living will? Does he have a will and someone knows where it is? I deal with a step-parent too and am so glad my mother made me POA 8 years ago.
I have just finished a letter to his doctor expressing my concern, his refusal to take the medication, and problems with my step mother when it comes to making their environment a safer place for them to live in. I thank you very much for you thoughts on that one. I would not have realized I could do that.
I appreciate you help in this and will chat later, angelmaker
Look up Beers Criteria on the net. It is a protocol for one to use to help sort out drugs and eliminate what is not needed, and change where needed. Often dementia symptoms will reduce when this is done. mom improved with every drug we took her off.
I really don't know legal ramifications of "who is responsible" in this case. I'd just drop a note to the doctor and perhaps he/she will call to have your father come for a review of all meds. He might be happy to know that many could be cut...less for him to take, Perhaps he can no longer swallow pills easily, chokes on them, so some meds can be done by liquids or patches.
The biggest problem is that the doctor will not see any results in blood pressure readings from the meds already prescribed and will up dose, add another med, change med, etc. Then when someone like yourself starts to help your father keep on track with his meds, he'll be overdosed, or misprescribed. I'd write a note to his doctor.
Perhaps there might be some consequences for you if you are aware your father needs additional help, and you let him wallow and decline because HE will not take his medicines. You or another caregiver should give him his medicines to take at this point. Where is that line where your father is knowingly not cooperating (like continuing to smoke) and being too senile to remember to take pills?