Thanks for all your feedback. My sister and he has a living trust and
according to the laws in California this should take care of who gets what.
She is listed as beneficiary and her son if something happens to both of them.
Although, sometimes he doesn't think clearly, sometimes he does. He knows
how much is in each bank, knows account numbers by heart, knows which banks
he does business with. Sometimes I wonder if he does have Alzheimer's.
He wants to go back to his home state to buy his brother a house (his brother
just had a stroke and is in a nursing home) But he feels, this way my sister
will not get "his" money. She has worked all her life and he said the money
doesn't belong to her because she never saved any of it. He was in charge of
making investments and saving money while she worked, worked and worked.
After he retired from the military, I don't think he worked as much as she
did. She finally quit at 68 years old because he had a stroke and needed to
take care of him. He doesn't see that or understand it. But he understands
that he must send his sister money, just because.
Bri
Evelyn - 31 Jul 2008 23:59 GMT
> Thanks for all your feedback. My sister and he has a living trust and
> according to the laws in California this should take care of who gets what.
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I can truly relate to her situation, Bri. Anyone who has had first
hand experience in dealing with a person who has the illness can
understand. They get obsessed with some crazy idea and there is no
turning them away from it. My mother in law was always nurturing
some obsession ......until the next one would come along, and then it
would be that one, either for a few weeks or months or however
long.
Your sister may need to be very cagey about how she handles things
with the money especially. She worked all those years and it could
easily be argued that he was ABLE to save money because she used hers
to support the family's other needs, therefore she probably has every
much as right to it as he does.
But as we have said before, it isn't about what is fair or right
anymore. Alzheimers has its own set of rules and they may have
absolutely no connection whatsoever to what is actually right or fair.
Regards,
Evelyn