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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]He's mostly there. I think he needs to stay active and be helpful to feel better about himself. I will look into animal shelter also, we tried giving him things to plant but it became an ordeal and he would plant them in random places like the middle of the lawn and then we would have to move them. I tasked him with putting up birdhouses and he used packaging tape to tape them to the sides of our house .. the list goes on...[/quote]

This is almost troll level. If this is real, you seem to be in some deep denial. Your dad is not cognitively capable of working or even volunteering. You need to get him assessed for dementia. And look for some sort of day program for seniors.[/quote]

This. When I had my first born a neighbor who just had her mother move in tried to pawn her mother off on me all day. She said she was "sharp as a tack", raised 5 kids, loved to take care of babies. It would be like a free nanny. I declined. She started showering me with gifts, So creepy. I met the mom at a neighborhood gathering and she was senile-totally unsafe to be around a baby without 100% supervision. The woman was looking for free eldercare claiming she would give me a free nanny. She could have harmed a newborn and caused s seriously disturbing situation for her elderly mother instead of just having her mother in a better setting or hiring help. A few months later her mom had a bad fall and ended in rehabilitation and then AL.[/quote]

Just saw this. I can relate, she was probably trying to get her out of her hair. [/quote]

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