May still able to get access to the records, mind. Either whoever took over for her or whoever inherited the records are not entirely unlikely to still have 'em around. Can also give a go at contacting anyway; send a snail mail letter or somethin' to make it less intrusive. Apologize for interrupting the retirement, ask if she happens to remember or could direct you to whoever might still have the records, etc. Ain't been stopped yet, just stymied a bit.
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... anyway, that feeling when someone asks you to look over some paperwork, and you notice that for the last year or three family has been paying for license plate renewal on a car that's about as much burnt out husk as car. Like, we're not talking "oh, there's some fire damage" we're talking "most of it outright unsalvageable, probably not worth selling for
scrap metal". And they were keeping the plate up to date. I kinda' understand (as in, it's been justified to me as that, but I haven't actually checked the net costs involved) there can be reason to do that if you're expecting to get a new vehicle soon-ish and intend to transfer the thing... but it's past soonish by several months, and they have neither the finances nor intention for getting another one. Not without doing stuff that, if they were inclined to, I wouldn't be dealing with this to begin with
hoarding behavior can go straight to hellSeriously need to figure out what to do about this kinda' thing. I'm not in good enough shape to keep overwatch on 'em by with the amount of help I've been getting... especially without power of attorney/full financial access. Rough bit is if this shit keeps up, and it shows no sign of slowing down (rather the opposite), this bunch of the family's probably going to get in a bit of a spat getting that from 'em within a year or two. Folks in question still think they're mostly competent, and that's increasingly becoming less true and more cognitive degeneration causing them to think they are. Double bonus(?) points it's kinda' happening to me, too, with less delusion and more slow building despair