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I apologize this isn’t directly personal finance related, but if this continues to get out of hand it will be, and everyone here always seems to give really good advice.

My father has been deteriorating recently, and at only 55 he seems to be suffering from extreme self neglect. My sister and I are in our late 20s, she is a single mom, I live 400 miles away, and we have no idea what to do.

He’s had a series of strokes, lives alone with his cat and dog, and it is a disaster. The house is covered in animal feces on the floors, tables, in the bathtub, everywhere; he’s not taking care of his personal hygiene; he cooks for himself but there is food left out on the counters and floors that he and the animals pick at until it’s either totally rotten or gone. He sees no issue with this, even when we ask him directly about the conditions of his home. He thinks he’s just “down on his luck” and it will get better, but in reality he is severely impaired by these strokes and it is only going to get worse.

He has no money, no savings, his house is going to be foreclosed on soon, and frankly he’s not an enjoyable person to be around so he has no real support system. He has a social worker who comes by once a week, but we have no contact with her and my dad doesn’t even know what her name is. He’s currently in the hospital because he decided to drive his car (which he knows he shouldn’t do) and crashed it. The hospital is ready to discharge him and they are telling us that there are no services available to help him and that it’s for “friends and family” to deal with.

As his daughters this is falling on us, but we feel ill equipped because we are also relatively young. We don’t have the means to take him in, and there are no other friends and family who are willing to help us in this situation. I’m hoping that someone in here may have some advice on what we can do to help him, because blindly googling whatever pops into my head is just making me even more confused and overwhelmed.



Submitted June 17, 2018 at 11:39PM by throwaway2389976 https://ift.tt/2LW4unJ

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