Some options:

You could contact your county's Area Agency on Aging (or equivalent) and local nursing homes and ask the social services people there what organizations they know that might help in that area. You could also contact The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society: www.leukemia.org and The National Cancer Institute: www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/types/leukemia and start from there to do some netwroking through relevant advocacy groups.

Retired from what? There may be a professional or union org that can be tapped.

In our poor-economy area, people mostly gang up in community fundraisers to get money and referrals to additional sources for help. Stuff like benefit dinners at churches and fire halls, scouting organizations, etc-- any group where this person has some form of social connection, or any other local org active in your area that is looking for a "project" to work on together, where they "adopt" this person's situation.

Any press you can get in your local paper about any of these types of efforts will tend to attract more help and helpers, as well.


Let me know if you want me to contact an Episcopal church in the area on this, and I'll be happy to do it.

~Susan