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You can be interested and supportive of your Mom as it seems you have been, but set the limits and follow them.  Your brother living in the house is the one whose direct responsibility it should be to help out.  Your Mom needs to learn to make choices on where she drives and get comfortable doing so.  Perhaps if you went down for a day and went over the best route to take to get to the key places she needs to go.  It sounds as if you really need to have a conversation with dear brother, too.

You also might check to see if there is any para-transit for the elderly or non-drivers in Prince William County or the cost of a cab in bad weather.  It might be worth it to give her a gift card for a cab at times in bad weather, then to guilt trip yourself.  Do what you can, but tell her calmly and clearly you have a lot on your plate and so best to make good use of your visit and not just sit there, but perhaps prepare meals ahead with her, take her on a larger than usual big food shopping which you could handle putting away, run errands with her and have a lunch out.

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