Dad can't look after himself - but he won't admit it!

What is to be done when someone near and dear appears to be losing their faculties and powers of judgment? There are fears of savings and the family fortune being wasted in folly, or worse still, being spent on the whim of someone outside the immediate family and in whom undue interest and unwarranted friendship is invested . Even if rather less dramatic but quite commonly, in another scenario, perhaps Dad is leaving the oven on, burning the clothes dryer motor by leaving it on day and night, and forgetting to put out the garbage for weeks on…