He was in his 70's and poor as a church mouse, how could he afford to move? Seniors that have only their social security as income pay bills and starve, or eat and lose to the guverment. It's easy to say what he should have done when you're in your 40's and have a good income stream. I've learned a couple hard lessons from seeing what happened to my brother and something else- the consequences of not having family: being ill and dying alone. The world is unkind to the elderly. In particular the poor elderly.