What to do with Mom when she needs long-term care?
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Today's question is: What do you do when Mom needs long-term care or a nursing home?
That was a question that confronted my family. And what did we do? We were three college-educated adults who loved our wonderful mother, so we did what so many adult children do, we denied the evidence.
We claimed it was just her being distracted when she was talking to us. She was busy cooking and talking to us that's why she asked the same question more than once. The fact that the refrigerator had some spoiled food was that she... that she what? She was a fabulous cook. She would have thrown it out. But we did not want to admit that the reason she didn't, was that she was losing her mind. Losing it to what the doctors called senile dementia.
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