Dealing with an older parent who stubbornly resists offers of help isn’t easy. Respect and empathy are key.
It was a regrettable mistake. But Kim Sylvester thought she was doing the right thing at the time.
Now, Sylvester had a chance to get some more information. She let herself into her mother’s home and went through all the paperwork she could find. “It’s hard when you see an older person making poor choices and decisions. But if that person is cognitively intact, you can’t force them to do what you think they should do,” said Anne Sansevero, president of the Board of Directors of the Aging Life Care Association, a national organization of care managers who work with older adults and their families. “They have a right to make choices for themselves.
In the older psychiatrist’s case, conflict with his four children was constant, Jacobs said, but he eventually stopped driving. “Decreased brain function can affect an older adult’s insight and judgment and ability to understand the risks of certain actions or situations,” she said, “while also making people suspicious and defensive.”
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