My 97 year-old mother has just been discharged from hospital (after a fall) to a care home. She now wishes to return to her own home which is unsanitary, unsafe, structurally unsound (part of the roof has collapsed) and is in a state of terrible neglect. She is in full command of her faculties. She is self-paying at the care home. I have a power of attorney but it is not activated (or whatever the legal term is).
If she returns home she will surely fall again or some other disaster will befall her.
She has begun to twist the arm of a family friend to take her home (against all her family's wishes).
Are there any legal means (or indeed non-legal, I don't mean illegal) means I can employ to prevent her return or at the very least delay her return?
Any advice on this matter will be much appreciated. I acknowledge that this is probably only a quasi-legal post.