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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You don't need to do that much if she is in assisted living.  Cut back.[/quote]

It seems really easy to say that and perhaps that is what my distance sibling thinks but it ends up being time intensive. This week:
Monday deal with pharmacy to renew medication, pick up medication and sort it into weekly pill container, pick up snacks my mom requested then drop them off (total time 2 hours from leaving my house to getting back to my house).
Wed- Visit (90 minutes door to door)
Thursday- leave work an hour early to take my mother to audiologist for hearing aid issue (2 hours leaving work, picking her up, taking her to appointment, waiting, taking her back home).
Today- (mother called crying saying she wasn't feeling well and was nauseous and weak (2 hours going and getting her applesauce, figuring out what medication she could take, visiting, etc).

I am not counting the all the phone calls I received from her or the phone calls I made to her. So at least 7 1/2 hours of my time this week.[/quote]

I had similar issues. We now have assisted living handling all the medications. That alone saves hours. Before the medications showed up whenever (which meant constantly going back to get an med because they did not all arrive at the same time) and I needed to get a background check to access the pharmacy on base.

In the DC area, I found an organization that will take seniors to medical appointments.

We have done psychiatric and sleep doctor visits through zoom so that saved hours of driving.

I’d skip the Wednesday visit and combine that with one of the other times.

I visit about once a week and call more frequently.

I send needed items by Amazon and set subscriptions up for frequently needed items like toilet paper.

If I do not take care of my own body, I will become very sick. [/quote]

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