• If the senior has impaired memory or displays classical signs of early dementia:
  • Can no longer manage finances or checkbook
  • No longer bathes or changes clothing daily
  • Unclear of date or time
  • Difficulty taking medication as prescribed
  • If there is ANY question about safety or security
• If there have been multiple hospitalizations or ER trips.
• If there are noticeable changes in physical or cognitive functioning.
• If there are memory changes in the past few weeks.
• If there are recent falls.
• If you are worried about the senior living alone for ANY reason.

What Happens if You Wait?

• Not making a decision to act IS making a decision…
• Using a “wait and see approach” usually leads to a crisis.
• Getting poor, inappropriate or no care leads to: quicker disease progression, falls, injury and other unsafe situations which are often preventable or treatable.