‘My elderly dad distrusts banks – and he’s buried all his cash in a field’

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I’m worried he’ll develop dementia and forget where it's buried. Photo: Getty

Gráinne Griffin

Q My dad is in his 80s and has had a lifelong distrust of banks. He lives on his own on a small farm.

I’ve always known that he’s kept all his money in cash – whenever he had to pay a tradesman, for instance, he would appear after a while with a couple of thousand in cash.