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Medical POA and a Home Health Aid
<p>Imagine a standard POA for medical has been given to an adult son for his parent to become effective when the parent cannot speak for him/her self. It has been determined by several doctors that the parent has dementia and cannot speak for herself.</p>
<p>Would the POA for medical enable the adult son to bring in a home health aid into the parent's home against her wishes?</p>
<p>My guess is no because the parent still control's her  home.</p>

<p>Your guess is correct (although an aggressive person could argue that the parent would never have the wherewithal to sue to complain about it).</p>
<p>The adult son really needs to have a guardianship established by a court, because a POA isn't sufficient to do what needs to be done.</p>
<p>Usually, an agent in a POA has priority for appointment as a guardian, and if the facts are clear, it isn't necessary to hard to get a guardianship established. But it does take money and it isn't instantaneous.</p>
