Dr. Karl Benzio

Helping a retired gambler

My mother retired last year and started spending a lot of time at the casino playing slots. She tries to hide how much she plays and how much she is losing from me and my sister but it is pretty obvious that she’s got a big problem but she totally denies it and she seems ready to blow through her retirement savings in the next few months without much of a plan for after that, as far as I can see. What can I do to get her to see how bad this is getting?