Caring For Aging Parents Support Group
Caring for aging parents can be a difficul time as we become the caretakers for our parents. This broad responsibility can encompass such services as assisted living, adult day care, long term care, nursing homes, hospice care, and in-home care. Whether you have just started caring for your parents or just need a place to talk, we're here.
my mom has been living with me off and on for over 2 years. it gets so hard. the lack of privacy, extra work, worry, being forced to be in contact with members of my family who i absolutely hate and who are toxic, the triggers to past past abuses when i was a kid, etc.
not really asking for advice. just posting where i am among those who get it.
i just go day to day. too overwhelmed to take further steps to change the situation for the better.
i'm just so tired. it's not just her, it's a lot of things.
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It's going to get hotter here with Thursday being the hottest. It's noon and 75f feels more like 80 or more.I've been cleaning up the deck in this morning and cleaning the windows outside. Then I cut up a pallet in half, I've decided to call it quits now because I went a bit light headed. Joanne, some drugs we take have an effect on us in the heat, I know a couple of mine do, maybe yours...
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There are always so many things to deal with. I just wish you the very best.
For my mom it was Alzheimer's. She came to live with my husband and I after she had a pacemaker put in for her Afib. My brother and family had cared for her for some years. I got her set up with doctors and regular appointments and did it all again when we moved. She was officially diagnosed in 2012 and passed in 2018. She declined in spurts and plateaued in between. It's not easy caring for a parent, but if you will try to make the most of your time together and try some healing, what you do spend together can be very fulfilling. Is she willing to go to counseling with you? I hope you are able to find a balance with your mom.