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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Right there with you. I don't want to do it anymore after 6 years. Mother is in an assisted living place and getting needier and needier with Alzheimers. No other sibling nearby so it falls to me.

I have cut out all doctors appointments that aren't critical. I will take her to eye doctor once. year to get glasses, dentist, and audiologist for hearing aids. Not willing to do any other visit.

She has a general practitioner doctor who visits where she lives. She has referred her to a dermatologist for a growth on her hand that is not painful.  If I had time I would go myself but I don't or take my teen for acne or my husband for skin tags. I am not doing any other visits because what is the point when she has moderate dementia unless she is in pain. It has been so exhausting. [/quote]

I feel the same way.

A doctor comes to where she lives. I arrange dental appointments and that’s it. She doesn’t have hearing aids, and her glasses work. If she really needed something else, the main doctor would let us know.

Something has to give.

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