My elderly friend who is 89, lives alone, always pays his bills on time, is very independent, lives in a senior citizen building. His super in the building befriended him and started taking him to do his errands. Now the super for the building has POA. He transfered all my friend's money to himself to buy a house in Florida and buy car for himself. Then when all this was done, put him in a nursing home after taking his apartment and doing away with his stuff. My friend is crying, wants to go back to his home and I am trying to help him. They took away his phone. To talk to him, one has to go to the operator, and the person that runs the nursing home is a relative of the super. So she's keeping an eye on him. When he gets a call, she brings the phone to him and sits beside him while he talks. I need to help my friend, pleading for advice.
"...when my friend came from the hospital, he could not get home health aid because of his pension and social security was too high, so the super said he and his wife would take care of him objection was made to him about that ,he says my friend does not have money to pay the church where he goes response was we will help with the payments and some could come from the pension and social security, that was not done,the super relative that runs the nursing home was able to get him four hours , the super who has POA refused to pay for the extra 4 hours ,i don't know which of the services was paying those four hours,iwill be going to see him today,all he is saying he did not know the guy could be so wicked and all the paper was sign when he was sick."
What kind of illness or accident did your friend have? So, he assigned a PoA while he was in the hospital?
If you've known him for so long and live close enough to visit him in the facility, then why didn't he contact you when he was in the hospital? Not trying to be contentious, just trying to get an understandable storyline.
In any case, call APS in your area.
Yes, you need to contact Adult Protection Services.
Please be aware that, at 89 yrs old, it is very possible he actually needs facility care and the information he's giving you *may* not be accurate but a delusion he is suffering due to the onset of dementia. It is a very common occurrence (as you will learn if you read some of the many other posts on this forum). Demented people will accuse their own lifelong beloved spouses of outrageous things, believing these thoughts sincerely, even calling the police on them.
Think about it: how would your friend know what the super did with the money? Why would they tell him? (Delusion?) How would he know that the aid who supposedly sits in on his phone calls is a relative and "runs" the place? (Paranoia?) How did he give you the information you now know? On a phone call? If so, how was he able to tell you with that aid sitting there?
It is probably true that he did assign someone as his PoA who felt they had to act to protect him and going into a faciity was the only option. Or, the super reported him and the county is actually now his legal guardian. There are lots of possibilities. FYI no one wants to be in a nursing home, even ones who aren't "duped" into it. Crying to come home is also an extremely common behavior as seniors make this very difficult transition. If "they" took away his phone maybe it was because he is now on Medicaid and the county guardian has seen that he doesn't have enough funds to pay for a plan (been there, done that with my own relative on Medicaid who became a ward of the county). Or, he was calling 911 for no legitimate reason.
If you know what facility he's in, can you go visit him in person? You might learn a lot in that visit.
That being said -- crimes are also often committed against vulnerable seniors. So if you feel strongly confident that what he's telling you is actually true, you should report his case.
If there is a local Senior Center in your area they probably have a Social Worker that can help as well. The Social Worker would be a "mandated reporter" of any abuse so it would get reported to the proper office for the area you are in.