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BTW what the doctor is probably talking about is a PEC, physician's emergency certificate, which is different from a CEC (Coroner's Emergency Certificate). A physician can "commit" him, which is a psychiatric hold, for 72 hours, if the coroner concurs, it moves to 14 days. So the doctor can actually do something on his own authority although that authority is limited. It sounds like the doctor has your FIL's best interest in mind, you should get your wife to work with him and an attorney to get that interdiction done.

Good way to put it.

At least his Dr is trying to help, and wake up his family. It’s easy to compensate for shortcomings, then find out way too late that they should’ve intervened. Y’all need to act quickly.

Alternative? Maybe he burns down the house. Walks in the street carrying a weapon, and gets killed by police. Runs over a 6 year old, then have that family’s attorney find out his daughter was told to intervene. Has a scammer clean out his accounts, maybe also obtains title to his home.

There are no really good outcomes, unfortunately, just some are better than others. I lived though Alzheimer’s with my parents, it’s heartbreaking.

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Posted by Thecoz

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Posted on 7/29/23 at 10:14 am to riverdiver

Fwiw… the disease is cruel but in a weird way not always…

My mother got the version that leaves long term memory but short term is about 90 seconds… so you could talk about the past and when discussing short term if you did not like the way the conversation went you would get another opportunity in a few minutes and you could tweak it to make it go better… she stayed happy and died happy and recognized our faces and voices till the end.

Unfortunately my father went into the dementia stage more and regressed back to childhood and early life.. he was military and they are use to structure so he got cranky at the end and went into an alternate world .. pretty much back to when he was an airman .

My mil is interesting.. she was a mean women that spent her entire life judging others by their bank account and job title.. just a real PIA.. she has gone back to her youth and forgotten how to be mean.. jealous and spiteful… she is in a very nice place in Nola and well taken care of.. from the surface she appears to be the happiest and nicest I have ever seen her…

Hoping for the best path for y’all

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