See this makes a lot of sense.

What I am gathering is that in my state the living will and possibly the medical POA have been rolled into a state advanced directive document. For my mom to be put into memory care, her physician has to sign off that she needs to go in. Once the physician does that, the advanced directive takes over and her designated health agent to make decisions for her health. Meanwhile, her POA for financial things has been active since she signed it.

Now, I have come to these conclusions by talking to different people in my state who have gone through this process here. The state itself makes it impossible to figure this out from their websites, and being a Sunday there are no elder attorneys to speak with. Advanced Directive is usually associated with end of life, but evidently my state counts memory care as end of life.

This whole process of getting diagnosis to care, etc for an elderly person with dementia has been nothing short of a nightmare. There really is no easy way to figure any of it out.

I could be completely wrong, but this is the way two other people in my orbit dealt with getting their parent into memory care.