Caring for elderly aunt who hides health problems and won’t speak up

[PhoebeFluffingtonFyffe]

5 infected teeth and a horrible pressure sore. No it is not a parody of the 12 days of Christmas, I wish it was. Wouldn't you feel like crap if you had this?

I've forced, along with my brother, my almost blind, hardly mobile and hard of hearing 67 year old aunt who we help look after to the dentist and the nurse for both of these things. She just complained she felt "like crap" and didn't know why.

She doesn't tell us when there are things wrong and she is such a worry.

67 is not elderly. How did she get into this position?

Diabetes not looked after = sight issues. Started to go deaf 20 years ago. Widowed 6 years ago and agoraphobic. Uncle did everything around the house. Lived on ready meals and pot noodles. Sat on the sofa all day so mobility declined terribly. Now sits in a chair all day and walks around the house with a stick. Elderly is what she is in health terms I think, I know 67 isn't elderly per se.

How would you not know you had 5 infected teeth? She wouldn't eat, said she had no appetite. No wonder!