Daggers Posted 21 July 2008 Author Posted 21 July 2008 I think it's also because in a lot of cases the older you get, you lose more and more of your ability to make sensible decisions. My Gran doesn't keep any cash in the house, but if someone turned up and said they were from the water board, I wouldn't be that confident that she wouldn't let them in without asking for ID or anything.A friend of mine's elderly mother inexplicably called a plumber out of the yellow pages to fix a shower head (when my friend could have got one from B&Q for a tenner for her), and he ended up replacing her water tank (which didn't need replacing) and leaving her without any running water, having taken £4500 cash off her before disappearing off the face of the earth. Heartbreaking for all concerned (apart from the bloke that did the runner), particularly so as my friend reckons that ten years ago their mum wouldn't have done anything half as daft as that in a million years I wrote something similar about my Dad, who is 84 now. He was an accountant but now he is hopeless with money - or anything really...it's as if he has had a common sense by-pass. He makes up for it by getting angry at everything and writing letters to the Bovey Tracey local newspaper, his local MP and shops. The silly bugger believes the internet - although why he wants a larger penis at his age I simply don't know.
davieG Posted 21 July 2008 Posted 21 July 2008 The Children become the Parents and the Parents become the Children.
Daggers Posted 21 July 2008 Author Posted 21 July 2008 The Children become the Parents and the Parents become the Children. I didn't want a bigger penis as a child - I just wanted a big Chopper.
Tommy G Posted 21 July 2008 Posted 21 July 2008 Something similar to this happened to my grandma about 10/15 years ago. The burglar didn't get away with much but when my uncle went round to see her she showed him £6k in a carrier under the sink that the burglar had missed.The reason it goes on is often to hide the money from the social services so that they still qualify for benefits, but I think the main reason is that they don't get round to putting it in the bank, it builds up from £5/£10 a week just stuck away somewhere. They often don't realise how much is in there, my grandma certainly didn't. Why would social services be investigating benefit fraud?
Guest Posted 21 July 2008 Posted 21 July 2008 Why would social services be investigating benefit fraud? A lot of the services on offer are means tested. If you have no bank account, then you have no assets.
syston_fox Posted 21 July 2008 Posted 21 July 2008 You congratulated me? When? Where? Why? Cool See quoting me who says one thing instead of someone else who has made multiple posts Because you came out and said it was the old mans own fault.
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