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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hire a once a week aid for 3 or 4 hours (most agencies have a 3 or 4 hour minimum) . When the aid comes in call them a cleaning lady (to father), Let MIL drive off for the 3 or 4 hours so she gets a real break. Tell her she can drive off and go to the spa, get her hair done, go to the mall etc.[/quote] Can I make a request that you not say this? People mean well but “go to a spa” is so insulting. She’s probably going to go to the dentist, to which she’s overdue. Or cry alone in a parking lot. Or go to target and buy stuff they need. The idea that 3-4 hours of respite care is so amazing and restorative to a caregiver that they’ll “go to a spa” is so out of touch with their reality that it borders on cruel. [/quote] You are right on! My Dad has someone comes in every weekday for 8 hours, and it is still all hands on deck in the evening and at night for my mother, I and my brother. [/quote]
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