I keep trying to look after it, but they will write checks that I know nothing about and they often forget the correct number, or they over pay bills, get overdrawn. My mother complains that she has 'no control' anymore, but I am getting tired of having to quickly put money into the accounts to cover the bad checks. I have POA but it is not getting through to them that they are getting careless about their accounts.
I understand the loss of control, but they get used to it and they have to or it will become an utter mess. Hope you can convince them to let you take over or perhaps someone else could convince them. Tell them there are a lot of scammers out there and you want to protect them. Tell them anything. If they are going to be stubborn about it, tell them anything that will get through to them. Hopefully something will. Good luck ...... not easy...take care