Conservatorship for Aging Father on Madcap Spending Spree
A woman recently came in to our office seeking assistance with a Conservatorship for her 83-year old father. He had moved into a nice retirement community in the East Bay after her mother died six years before. Our client visited her father often, and she was consistently impressed with the facility—the people who lived there were friendly and warm, the staff was helpful, kind and upbeat. They provided two healthy meals/day and activities that helped keep residents active and engaged. Her father was a nonparticipant, frail and alone Yet her father lived a solitary existence–he had made no friends and ate his meals alone. He had become very frail, was losing weight and had trouble with his balance. He’d had several bad falls, and while he had not broken any bones, he was badly bruised. She was afraid that if he fell and no one was around, he would not be able to get up. She suspected he was not eating and that he was drinking, sometimes heavily, which created a precarious balance...