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The daughter of a vulnerable man claims a caregiver abused her father and stole tens of thousands of dollars, before forcing him to sign over his home and failing to inform his family that he had died.
According to WJZ, Nora Rowland’s father began using home care services in 2021 after suffering a traumatic brain injury and being diagnosed with Parkinson's disease.
While she lived in Baltimore, he had decided to retire in South Carolina in 2013, so his daughter could not be there to help her 75-year-old father with daily tasks.
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A few years after his injury, in 2024, the family began using a new caregiver from Griswold Home Care Services.
Tragically, Rowland claims that just three months later, her father was dead, all his money had disappeared, and the house had been signed over to his caregiver.
The caregiver, who has not been publicly named, has been accused by the daughter of physically abusing her father and forcing him to sign over the deed to his $300,000 home.
Rowland told WJZ: "I keep wracking my brain like, how could I have prevented this? And I really can't imagine how I would have known."
Despite his brain injury and Parkinson’s diagnosis, Rowland described her father as otherwise healthy, “independent,” and an avid golfer who only needed help with a few daily tasks. She also maintained that despite living in another state, she spoke to her father regularly.
Rowland’s initial concern was sparked when their regular communication became less frequent, and when she alarmingly did not hear from him on her birthday or Father’s Day, she travelled to South Carolina to see him.
Heartbreakingly, upon her arrival, she learned that her father had been dead for three days and his home was no longer in his name.
The devastated daughter described it as “such a surreal moment”.
According to Rowland, the caregiver moved her father out of his home and into a senior living facility without her knowledge, before moving into the home themselves.
While her father needed medical care, Rowland said she did not believe he should have been treated as an end-of-life patient. Records from his senior living facility described him as "emaciated" and "hallucinating."
His daughter believes he was incorrectly placed on and off hospice care and given different medications that affected his mental state.
Rowland accuses the caregiver of forcing her father to sign over the $300,000 home for just $5, and now, even two years after her father’s death, the caregiver is living in the home, while his daughter pays the taxes.
Heartbreakingly, Rowland said: "We hired her to care for him. We didn't hire her to steal from him and defraud him and kill him."
