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Question by Abba Dabba2: Intercontinental transport of the senile/mentally handicapped?
My grandmother is senile and no longer to make her own decisions.

She has become a burden on the family as people have to take time off from work to deal with her idiocy.

A few years ago, my grandfather wanted to return to their home country for old age, where they have a large house and their son, my uncle, is the mayor of the village they live in. She started to packed and they set a deadline for may. Its been 2 years since that date.

She has been packing and repacking, probably stalling. She literally packing garbage now, american furniture, plastic cutlery, electronics which will only work in the us, those crappy cardboard drawers…etc…

My grandfather would throw all of it away, but she kept packing and stalling.

She constantly complains that’s its cold, so they have heat up to like 90.

She lives like a hermit. She doesn’t go to church, She doesn’t go to funerals, baptisms or weddings, but will go with her youngest daughter to do laundry because the machine in her building “works wrong”

She slipped and fell a few months ago, and didnt want to be taken to the hospital. We didnt know what to do. We had a doctor come out and didnt let him touch her. He got the paramedics and my grandfather signed releases to get her to the hospital against her will. She got back from the hospital after a few weeks, and her got worse because she wouldn’t allow anyone to touch her again. Same thing happened and she went to the hospital for 3 weeks, and now medicare/insurance was going to stop paying, so we got her sent to a nursing home.

Thankfully, they somehow coaxed her to pose for a passport photo and got her foreign passport passport made before this.

If she didn’t have us citizenship, then we would just get her deported somehow, so the govt would handle the dirty work and be responsible for her…..

Ideally, duct taping her mouth, chaining her to a wheel chair and stuffing her in a bombproof luggage container in a pressurized cargo hold to bypass tsa would be the way to go….

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So here is my question, how do we get her on a plane and back to the homeland ?
What sort of provisions would need to be made and what kind of paperwork would be needed?
What about TSA, the airline, and the FAA, the pilots and attendants on the plane….etc…

She will obviously be accompanied by 2-3 people. One of them being my grandfather.
Also we don’t know how to transport her….in a wheelchair or on a stretcher….
Bear in mind that she will probably be argumentative, uncooperative, unwilling. She would not be able leave the wheelchair, and may need to be tied down.

She will be going through O’hare Airport, and she is white/northern european, not arab…..not on any TSA list…..if that makes a difference…

Best answer:

Answer by Lily
You need to contact the airline prior (I would do that before buying the ticket), find out that they do offer special assistance. I used to travel with Singapore airline when I need to be looked after, from the time I check in, they have staff to take me through every where, like customs, getting on/ off the plane, and make sure I arrive at the other end where my parents pick me up. They have a sign off at each step, very good service.

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