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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop
We went through this with my grandparents, using persuasion instead of legal proceedings, and it was hard for everyone involved except the local body shops. At the risk of stating the obvious, you really don't want him to kill someone, and neither should he, but giving up his independence is lousy. If he lives someone with Uber/Lyft, you can buy the car from him in exchange for an open Uber/Lyft account.
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We went through it too. Required actually moving the elderly person involved to a new place, because as long as she lived in the old one out in the sticks she was going to find a way to drive. She now lives near us, my wife sees her every day, there is van service, she knows how to lyft, and we convinced her she needed to pass her car on to one of her grandchildren who really, really, needed it to get by, so it was a good thing she was doing.
All I can say is, be creative. Regardless of competency/incompetency, the old folks are smart and wily and you'll need to be too.
