Hi everyone,
My grandma currently lives in her own home, her long term memory is ok but short term she struggles to remember what she's done that day.
She's adamant she doesn't want to go in a home so my dad has tried to make her house as safe as possible, she attends a day centre 3 times a wk, he visits every day and she has a carer every morning and night.
In July we noticed grandma was spending a lot more money than usual and eventually found out that the window cleaner was collecting 2 weeks windows money quite frequently. He was warned off and we thought we'd seen the last of him, til last week when the carer caught him running out the house. He's on bail at the moment and confessed to fraud but I'm not sure if he'll just get a slap on the wrists as grandma has let him into the house (she trusts the window cleaner and cannot remember how often she has paid him) and she's willingly handed over the money.
My question is has anyone else come across this before? Or with cold callers turning up at the door and taking advantage? I've read various articles where this has happened but there doesn't seem to be anything to help us prevent this from happening! Surely we can not let this one scum bag take away my grandma's freedom.
My dad's been staying with her every day since it happened. I'm staying tonight to give him break, it's breaking our hearts thinking she has to go in a home
My grandma currently lives in her own home, her long term memory is ok but short term she struggles to remember what she's done that day.
She's adamant she doesn't want to go in a home so my dad has tried to make her house as safe as possible, she attends a day centre 3 times a wk, he visits every day and she has a carer every morning and night.
In July we noticed grandma was spending a lot more money than usual and eventually found out that the window cleaner was collecting 2 weeks windows money quite frequently. He was warned off and we thought we'd seen the last of him, til last week when the carer caught him running out the house. He's on bail at the moment and confessed to fraud but I'm not sure if he'll just get a slap on the wrists as grandma has let him into the house (she trusts the window cleaner and cannot remember how often she has paid him) and she's willingly handed over the money.
My question is has anyone else come across this before? Or with cold callers turning up at the door and taking advantage? I've read various articles where this has happened but there doesn't seem to be anything to help us prevent this from happening! Surely we can not let this one scum bag take away my grandma's freedom.
My dad's been staying with her every day since it happened. I'm staying tonight to give him break, it's breaking our hearts thinking she has to go in a home