My brother removed our father from a nursing home and has been taking care of him for 7 months. He ask me to take our father for a couple days while he moves into a new place. After moving in, he refuses to take our father back saying it's now my turn to take care of our father. I am unable to take care of him other than him spending the night. Is their anything I can do?
Maybe your brother honestly thought he could care for Dad and would be better than the nursing home. When he found out that wasn't the case, his behavior was not honorable.
Poor Dad. Do your best to assure him that you love him and want the best for him and you are sorry that it can't be at your house. I hope you can find suitable placement for him quickly.
As for now, my father is in the nursing home getting the proper health care treatments that he needs.
As for my relationship with my brother, while I had never fully trusted him, I had always provided him opportunities. He claims I am selfish, though over the years I have given him thousands of dollars to help with his bills, rent, to buy a car, I have bailed him out of jail, and I gave him help whenever it was within my ability to do so. I have taken him to multiple sporting events on my own dime. Paid his way into every poker tournament we've ever played in together. He has stolen my identity (though he claims it was his ex wife that stole it) and I paid the bills he ran up in my name instead of turning him into the police. All this and I never asked for any of the money back nor have I ever asked him for help with anything as I don't seem to find myself in any of the troubles he always finds himself in. Actually I did ask for the bail money back, but I never seen a dime of it.
However, this trickery from him has put me a week behind in my schoolwork and may have been the final straw for me. So as for now I will take advantage of his disowning me and move on. If it leads to us not talking in 9 years or so, then I'll evaluate and deal with that at that time and see how I feel. As for now, I feel relieved.
Re: your father's care, contact your local Adult Protective Services agency. Could he possibly go back to the nursing home he was in before? What does your father want?
Also, you need to find out what the legal situation is. Does your brother have PoA? If your father is competent, he can have it revoked and appoint someone else. If not, your brother's stunt pretty much guarantees the state will revoke it, but you will have to find out the process for this.
Find out about your father's finances too. Make sure your brother isn't dipping into your father's money.
I contacted his old nursing home on Friday and they said they are waiting for the doctor to provide them my father's health care needs before they can admit him. This was before the argument between my brother and I. I don't know who his doctor is and when I picked up our father I asked my brother about his medicine since I would have him for a couple days, and my brother said there was nothing to worry about since I'll only have him for a few days.
At the start, I offered my brother the advice of leaving our father in the nursing home where we know he'll be taken care of. He refused to do so because he said he didn't want to be left in a nursing home when he got older. I may be a jerk for not helping from the start, but my brother knew that before he turned down my advice.
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