I am ten years older than my brother and I am in my late 60s. I am married with no children. He is not married, has no children and looks after our elderly mother. My worry is if he dies before me, say in the future when I am 90 and he is 80 I probably wont have the mental capacity or energy to be an executor of his estate. The legal things are a worry, but worse would be who would sort out his house, sell items, keep family items safe, put the house up for sale. I dont live near him and even if I did I know I could not organise all this. it would be a challenge now never mind in the future. There are no other relatives who could step in either. The same applies to me when I die. He would have the same problem. Both of us would be too old to do any of this. Our mum is in her 90s. Mentally she is ok but frail. Looking at her I know she would not be capable of sorting out anything, it would be too much, so the same would be true of us when we get to that age. This problem must apply to a lot of people when they get older. Not so much in the past as people did no own their own house they rented, so it was just a case of emptying the property. Do the council have a team that can step in to sort out things? Its a worry that preys on my mind for the future.
