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Your mother suffers from anxiety and depression, among other things.
Your mother has the immense burden of being the primary caregiver for someone with Alzheimer's.

And you dare to criticize her emotional reactions when she had people over, that she probably didn't want to host to begin with???

Ingratitude can go no further - you are lower than the low, OP.

You need to support her, because right now she is under incredible amounts of strain. And if she wasn't a pleasant person to begin with, don't you imagine that she'll suddenly become one now, with all that added burden. Who would?

So consider her well-being first. Don't encourage her or enable her to host or extend herself in anyway for anybody except your father. 
Next year invite her to a Holiday meal at a nice hotel/restaurant or a gathering at somebody else's house.
During the year, if you're far away and can't pitch in, at least phone regularly and just listen to her complaints.

Now I've seen it all.
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