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Caring for a Loved One with Dementia (Recorded Webinar)

Lawyer Jeremy Bohbot answers questions about caring for a loved one with dementia, including about powers of attorney, planning for incapacity, making property decisions, and understanding what to do if you suspect abuse. For British Columbia, Canada. Current to November 2025. Show notes at https://www.peopleslawschool.ca/webin... Caring for a loved one in the early stages of dementia 3:30 Factors considered when deciding whether a person with early onset Alzheimer's has capacity to sign a power of attorney. 6:55 How to handle a parent’s bank account and bills when the parent has dementia and hasn’t named an executor in their will or made a power of attorney. 11:45 Whether an attorney named under a power of attorney can legally appoint another person to take over if they’re concerned that the person they care for will outlive them. 13:25 Whether a spouse can sell a jointly owned home when the other spouse has dementia and what an enduring power of attorney allows them to do. Supporting a loved one with dementia 15:20 Whether you must share information with your siblings about a bank account you hold jointly with a parent who has dementia and whose care you manage. 17:55 How to prove that you are an attorney appointed under a joint power of attorney when you don’t have the signed power of attorney and the other appointed attorney is representing themselves as the sole attorney. 22:20 What steps you can take if you think an elderly parent is being taken advantage of by a financial advisor. Concerns about abuse 23:54 What you can do when a sibling appointed as attorney under a power of attorney uses a parent’s credit card for personal spending unrelated to the parent’s care. 26:00 Whether an attorney appointed under a power of attorney can legally remove an adult child from the home of a person with dementia if that person’s child is abusing them or has been stealing money from them. Dealing with a death or an estate 29:50 How an adult child named as alternate executor in their parent’s will can step in as executor if the first named executor (the surviving parent) has dementia and can no longer act. 32:35 How an alternate executor named in the will of a person with dementia can resign and allow for another family member to take their place. 34:35 How a first named executor in the early stages of Alzheimer’s who does not want to act as executor can pass that role on to the next named executor after the will-maker has died. Rights of beneficiaries 35:20 How to ensure that a sibling who has been appointed as attorney under a power of attorney by a parent with dementia and who has control over the other (deceased) parent’s estate keeps proper records and makes good decisions — especially when they are not communicating. Live questions 40:30 How to initiate an assessment of a person with progressing dementia to see if they are able to stay alone in their own home or should be placed into a facility to receive care. 41:35 What happens if someone needs to go into memory care but they are resistant to going and there’s no enduring power of attorney or committeeship. 43:00 Where there’s no representation agreement and a person with dementia ends up in the hospital, and family members are unable to care for them at their home, whether they would be kept at the hospital or whether the hospital would be able to place them in a care facility. 45:45 Whether a section 7 representation agreement for finances can be completed for someone with mid-level to advanced dementia. 49:25 The interplay between a section 7 representation agreement and applying for a committeeship. 50:30 Whether a stepchild has the same rights as a birth or adopted child in disputing a stepparent’s will, or trying to commit a stepparent who is experiencing dementia. 52:50 How long it typically takes to apply for a committeeship and whether your first step should be with a lawyer or a physician. 54:10 What to do if attorneys jointly appointed under an enduring power of attorney (and who must act together) don’t agree. 56:20 Whether your only options for executors under a will and attorneys under a power of attorney are lawyers when your children live overseas and your friends are also failing.