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19. I'm the elder (parent) responsible for care of 60-yr. old daughter in a long-term care facility.
Mon Feb 14, 2022, 04:03 AM
Feb 2022

I'm still in my one-floor home, and just doing the activities of daily living for myself is getting more and more difficult.
I'm always feeling that I'm behind on chores, and indeed I am.
Even making the appointments necessary for daughter and trying to keep everything right and in control for daughter is getting to be more than I can manage.
Her two local siblings pitch in to a degree, and her sister, who is an opposite in disposition, will have to take over when I no longer can.
That will be very hard for the needy daughter, who has psychological problems as well as asphasia, a paralyzed arm, diabetes and kidney disease.

No ready answers. I do have some housekeeping help, and a woman who takes daughter to doctor's appointments, as I'm no longer up to picking her up, driving to medical center, getting daughter inside and then the reverse in return.
I'm grateful I can still do this much. Many my age cannot.

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