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What to do when your mother who is has dementia refuses to go into assisted living because she is "not old like that" and refuses help?
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Verytired1290
Answered May 2022
How to get cooperation from uncooperative MIL?
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Taarna
Answered Aug 2022
How do I convince my mom to take a shower?
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MagicGayle
Answered May 29, 2023
I'm new here. How do you know when it's time to step in? DH & I have tried counseling with his parents in the past, concerns are dismissed.
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lkdrymom
Answered Aug 19, 2023
Dizziness and chest pain when breathing, any idea what could be going on?
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JoAnn29
Answered Oct 7, 2023
My bipolar mother with dementia refuses to be brought to a nursing home. What can we do?
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jeannegibbs
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My father is 96, lives alone, and refuses to let me install a smoke detector in his house. What can I do?
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moecam
Answered Oct 2017
Help!! My mom REFUSES to be alone!
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BeckyT
Answered Feb 2018
What to do when my mom does not have the money for the care she needs at home?
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tbrown62
Answered Apr 2018
How can you HELP someone who refuses HELP and won't HELP themselves?
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Ilovemycats
Answered Mar 2018
How do I get my mother to agree to respite care for herself?
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BarbBrooklyn
Answered Apr 2018
If a parent wants to die at home, when the time comes how does one handle illness?
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MargaretMcKen
Answered Oct 2018
I need advice! What would you do?!
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Carol2324
Answered Mar 2020
How do you care for a parent that values fighting and winning at all costs?
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bundleofjoy
Replied Apr 2021
Parents, 85 & 90, unsteady, isolated, non-driving, no longer want to cook, no cognitive deficits. Advice?
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Goddatter
Answered Apr 2021
Elders who distort reality, for lack of a better way to describe it. Is there a helpful approach to get around some of this?
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thingsarecrazy8
Answered Sep 2021
Are there options for getting high blood pressure prescriptions refilled for a stubborn 87-yr-old when she refuses to go to her doctor or get labs?
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Kma1983
Replied Apr 2022
How do you deal with caring way more about a LO's health than they do? Yet they complain about issues they could easily improve?
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Moxy234
Answered Feb 2022
How do I force my parents to get the in-home care they need?
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RitainNC
Answered Mar 2022
My mother-in-law needs assisted living for safety and mobility reasons so my husband and I can have a life. She is resistant. Thoughts?
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JeanLouise
Replied Dec 2022
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