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What type of resources are needed? Caregiving? Financial? First thing, contact your parent's County/city Council on Aging to see what local programs are available.
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Well, this is likely going to take a family leave application if you are still working so that you can visit, assess the entire situation financially and help to make some decisions. I wish you the best but this is a full time job for a while if you are the only one dealing with it. I think it is unlikely that in home care will work for these two and you are perhaps looking now at placement.

When you have a specific question for us, do return and ask it. It sounds as though you are looking at placement in Assisted living at the least, or at MC and Hospice. This may include applications to Medicaid once you understand the family financial assets situation. You may want to consider hiring on a Fiduciary to help that is based in the town where your parents are living. Recommendations often come from Elder Law Attorneys who work with them in the court system when elders have no family.

We, as a Forum of strangers can have utterly no idea of the situation you face, which will be unique and dependent on what is currently happening and on the cooperation or lack of it from your parents who are now in need of care. We cannot know what you already know and what you do not know.
We certainly wish you the best of luck going forward. Can only imagine how helpless you must feel in this. Do know that's where we ALL started out. When you live away from family it all starts with the dread "phone call" and it is once anxious year awaiting. I want to welcome you to the Forum and hope you can get some comfort and information you need here. If you are not already the designated POA the first step is deciding if you are capable of serving as the POA. Secondly is checking any pre-existing will that may designate you as POA within a springing POA section of that will. I suggest contacting an elder law attorney where your parents live when you visit as a way to get grounded and have a starting list of options.
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