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[quote=Anonymous]My brother and I have been estranged from our mother for nearly 5 years. Completely estranged, meaning no phone calls, emails, zero communication. She is a very toxic, depressing person to be around. There is a lot of trauma, a lot of lying, malice.

We received a call from her neighbors over the weekend that she is declining. She almost never leaves the house. She barely cooks and cleans so they helped set her up with a homecare agency, she now has help. But they don't think she should be alone so they reached out to both of us. They know we have no relationship but felt that we should know and maybe step in put her into assisted leaving. They also told us they suspected she blew through her savings and whatever money Dad has left her. Her assets are dwindling, luckily she has a roof over her head. There is only so much these neighbors can do, they are very nice people but they have their own families to worry about. I should add she's not very old, she is 72 years old. My ILs are in their early 80s and are much more active than her.

We both live in DMV area but she lives in the Midwest. We can hardly drop everything and move there to take care of her. We don't know where to start. How does one go about getting help/housing, especially with no one around them? [/quote]

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