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Delta Alum, I'm so sorry to hear this. All my prayers to you and your family.
I watched my mother take care of her mother-in-law, my father,
my grandmother, grandfather and aunt. Plus, my sister moved in with her two children after her divorce. She spent the better part of her life caring for people. She has no friends and sits at home all day... I feel so guilty that I have a busy life and can't just sit with her the way she did with others. MONTHS ago she injured her foot and unless someone drives her, she can't/won't go out.
I know she's depressed, but she refuses to go to a doctor.
No one in my family has been sent to a "home". I doubt I could send Mom. In-home care is probably the way I would go if the day comes. If dementia sets in, or she became bedridden, I don't know what I would do. Guess this is one of those "Cross that bridge when we get to it" situations.
The problem I see is that families are so spread apart and broken.
In the "old days" the houses were bigger for utility purposes, family was near and the responsibility could be shared. (But then, I grew up in an agricultural community.) That started changing when I was a little girl.
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