I wonder if I can perhaps get some advise.
I'm at my witts end, my family recently moved closer to my in-laws but my mother in-law is a terrible hoarder.
Her house is actually infested with fleas, there is rotten food, you can't even get in the front door properly. I'm worried as she not only has fell downstairs, tripped resulting in broken bones but she can't and won't phone 999 or a doctor as the house is that bad.
The phrase wipe your feet as you leave is very accurate, and I'm now having to even disinfect my own house when she visits her 2 year old granddaughter as its that bad.
The smell would knock you dead, we have all tried to get her to clean as she physically can not do housework as no floor is visible under books and filth but even when a skip was hired she just got everything that was thrown away back out, her gp has been informed and spoken with her but she denies she has a problem and refuses anyone to come see the problem itself at her home.
She doesn't even have a proper working or clean kitchen yet she is still making food in there.
I found this website off the NHS as it says not to contact environmental health as that doesn't fix the problem in the long run but the house is so dangerous and it's affecting her health, and she can't even get out if there is a fire.
Please advise on what I can do as I don't want to stop her visiting but I'm disabled with a 2 year old child I can't keep disinfecting my house everytime she visit so that I don't have fleas (even though they don't live on humans she has 4 cats all infested including the house and we have seen them crawling on her)
Who can I contact about this? And what will the consequences be? I don't want my family to lose there pets they love or their house I just want her to literally clean up her act.
