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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would talk to your siblings and explain that you are suffering from caregiver burnout and have been for awhile. You are going to need to step back and focus on your own health, your kids and the things you’ve been putting on the back burner for a long time. Ask your siblings to look at memory care in their areas. Maybe it’s time for Mom to move to be closer to one of them. If you/ they can find a place that has a doctor that comes to the facility for check ups and prescriptions that would make things way easier. [/quote]

This is bad advice and will just make OP feel more burned out and alienated when they distance themselves from her too. They made their boundaries clear, now OP needs to figure out hers and step back more. I have been there with doing too much, feeling burned out and resentful and the solution was to have better boundaries. Find out what the facility offers. Outsource whatever you need to assuming there is money. [/quote]

Well it worked for me which is why I suggested it. If her siblings are concerned about their mom they will step up. If not, they are at least on notice that some of the stuff that they are used to being done might not get done.  The op can not be there for anyone else if she is at her wits end and barely holding it together herself. She needs help with this.[/quote]

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