<prompt> Human: This is a throw-away, because Im just too emotionally involved to think straight, and its hard to be coherent with this question. I do NOT have power of attorney, I just left my phone number with the social worker last time I visited the nursing home.I live cross country from the nursing home, and do not regularly visit, so that, of course also gets me in the emotional feels and makes it hard to separate out my options.My Dad was in the marines in Vietnam. Luckily, this means he has the VA - and medicare paying for this nursing home for the last 8 years. Hes been diagnosed as paranoid schizophrenic for decades. Early onset Alzheimers for at least 10 years. Hes been homeless for all intents and purposes since 1995. He has no assets.He took out student loans back in the 80s. He didnt pay them back, and was off the grid since the 90s. The student loan people from what I understand found him once he was nonverbal, and took him to court, so now is grabbing their money from his social security before the nursing home has access to charge him their fees.I believe that he was getting excess money from Social Security for a few years before the student loan thing, so he has a trust set up for him, and the excess went in that - but now its run out, and the nursing home called me today to say he is 102 in the hole, and he has a shortfall of 51 per month. Between my brother and I, we can cover it, although, frankly, neither of us are rich, so this will be taking money out of some other budget.The nursing home got me on my 15 minute break at work. I just promised to send some money, but when I called back once I got home, to get more info I couldnt get anyone to pick up the phone, or even a machine to leave a message.My aunt is the one with the power of attorney, etc, but she is also not in the area at the moment, and was never able to get information about the student loan, so I have no idea how much he still owes, or how much is getting taken out of his Social Security.Im worried that by sending money and covering this, I can suddenly find myself liable for a lot of other bills. I dont have thousands to pay for any outstanding bills he might have. I know back in 1996, he caused a major car accident that killed my stepmother she spent two weeks in a coma and possibly injured passengers in another car. He was of course, not insured. Or even licensed. I am sure that he never paid any medical bills. He has also likely not filed for taxes for several decades because he was anti-government.I do not want to move him from his nursing home. Its a good one. Also, Im not even his Power of Attorney, so Im not sure how much say I would have in that anyhow.Please break down for me what I should do. Ill take anything under advisement.  <response>: You should also apply for Total and Permanent Disability for his student loans to make the student loans go away. The fact they the student loan administrator havent mentioned this as an option pisses me off. He qualifies.You should talk to rlegaladvice about the Power of Attorney stuff because that will help you to take action on his behalf. 