#elderlycare

[Fyi I'm sick and upset so this might not come out good]

As some of you who've been following me and Moms Homelessness Saga for a while now probably know, I have a financially abusive sister who has the info for the Debit card that Moms SSI and SSDI come on, and she steals from her regularly.

Well. She stole $100 off the card on the 1st before I got to the ATM and then because she herself gets paid on the 2nd and because mom and i have a Killer flu and werent thinking straight we just didnt even think about her second check until we were getting ready for bed on the 3rd and

there was only $293 left of a $600 check.

We have the room paid until Tomorrow and have enough money for Two Days. I genuinely dont know what to do.

If anyone has anything they could potentially send our way, it would be a genuine lifesaver at this point.

As I was cooking lunch, the breaker blew for my stove. I reset it, finished cooking, and ate my food. It blew again. I turned it all the way off and back on again, and all of the power went out in my whole condo. 🙃

I checked with a couple of my neighbors, and they all still had power. That means I blew the main breaker to my unit. That breaker is located on the back of my building down someone's driveway, one road over. I walked my ass over there, in this fucking heat to try to figure out which house I needed to ask to let me into their backyard to reset my breaker. 🫠

I figured it out and knocked. It was the sweetest little old lady who was at least eighty five. She said I had to go through her house because her gate wasn't working. A vendor who had been there earlier in the week had bent one of the hinges, and it didn't open all the way.

I told her I would try to fix her gate if she could show me where I needed to go to flip my breaker. She showed me, and I reset my main electrical breaker for my condo. Very exciting.

I manhandled her gate open, and we got her car out so that she could drive it. And I showed her how she could open the gate far enough to get her car in and out on her own without a strapping young(er) person to open it.

She insisted on driving me back to my house, which was less than a block away. She was a delight. And while we were talking, she meekly said, "I hope you come back. Just to visit." 🥹

Y'all. I have a new best friend and I will be visiting her often.

Chile’s silent crisis: more people die by suicide than from homicides, and mental health is already having an impact on the country’s economy. Revista Tierra Bella (21th may 2026)

The Pharmacy Fund for Chronic Non-Communicable Diseases (FOFAR), one of the main programmes supporting patients with high blood pressure, diabetes and high cholesterol treated within the public healthcare system, is listed in the Ministry of Treasury's proposal for discontinuation as part of a government-led review of public spending. The measure forms part of a document drawn up by the Budget Directorate (Dipres), which identifies hundreds of state programmes subject to evaluation for the 2027 Budget. Among these are various initiatives by the Ministry of Health, including FOFAR. What is FOFAR? FOFAR funds the procurement and free provision of medicines for people with chronic conditions who are treated within the primary healthcare system. Thanks to this fund, Family Health Centres (CESFAMs) are able to maintain a supply of treatments for patients with highly prevalent conditions such as high blood pressure, type 2 diabetes mellitus and dyslipidaemia. In many municipalities, these resources have also made it possible to supplement local authority programmes providing home delivery of medicines to older people and those with reduced mobility.

Kast’s government is considering discontinuing Fofar in the 2017 budget: the programme benefits thousands of patients with chronic illnesses. Revista Tierra Bella (2nd july 2026)