My 89 year old Mother Gave me Power of Att. for health decisions and Power of Att. for Financial . The POA for health was a verble in the hospital where she is still at. She has been there almost 5 months. The POA for financial was on paper. The hospital has stated that mom needs 24/7 care and is strongly recommending mom be removed to take her home. One of my Sister's I believe is attempting to get my mom to change the POA for health so that she can remove her from the hospital. I do not think that at this time Mom should be removed from hospital. Can anything be done to prevent this if I feel that Mom's not making a rational decision, She may be changing POA just to get out of hospital , but that does not make it a good decision, And the sister I speak of has other motives which she will put into play after she gets mom back home. There is much more to this story but out of space.
There is no such thing as a verbal POA. If your mother has appointed your sister her agent in a written Medical POA, your sister, not you, can speak on her behalf. If your mother needs 24/7 care she needs either a huge amount of money to pay for it at home (at about $25/hour) or nursing home care.
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