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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Op here - I can’t believe the tone on some of these comments here. All of your elderly relatives welcomed your interventions with open arms? Sorry I asked. [/quote]

What you hear in the tone is frustration and "been there, done that" experience.  Some of us have learned that badgering our parents to do reasonable, obvious things that would improve their safety/quality of life doesn't really work.  We want you to save yourself the headache.  [/quote]

This. What you can try is to first get a case manger in the door to assess need and coordinate care. That will cost A LOT, but the person is trained to talk to elderly in such a way that they may be more open to it. It also is useful because you parents may keep firing people and people don't show up and they start to think a caregiver is stealing (which can be true or the parent forgot where she/he put something and it turns up). After enough years it can drive you insane and it's nice to contract out the job of listening to them complaining, finding the right people, assessing when they need more care and getting them to accept that.[/quote]

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