Senior Citizen Parents are alcoholics, should I intervene?

Question by troutsniffer41: Senior Citizen Parents are alcoholics, should I intervene?
My parents (both over age 63) are alcoholics. They function within the real world to some degree and both have jobs, but both have had illnesses related to their drinking and smoking (2 packs a day for both) that have kept them from work for up to 3-5 days at a time. They “cover” for each other regarding their drinking and their health issues and my sisters and I worry that there may be more serious things going on that we don’t know about. (Our Dad has fallen and blacked out before and our Mom has tried to hide it from us). My sisters and I have confronted our parents and asked them to seek treatment, we’ve offered financial help in doing that, but we’ve been met with pride and an attitude of “it’s not that big of a problem”. We feel at this point that until they feel they need help, theres really not much we can do but love them and wait for something bad to happen. People in our town know their secret and love them anyway…What would you do if these were your parents?

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Answer by Irish
Exactly what you said above. I couldn’t have said it better. you can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make him drink. Good luck to and your sisters.

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