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[quote=Anonymous]Didn't rant a week or 2 ago about your brothers putting her in some awful place, but you found a fancy pants place with a nice view and you care about her so you moved her. Now you say she does connect with staff, but the people are just too disheveled for your movie star looks mom who has a walker and needs a caregiver, but her posture is better than those messes! Listen to yourself. You blame your brothers. You blame all those old people who are not fancy enough for mom. Stop blaming. Stop being so enmeshed with mommy who is struggling with mental health. Step back for a moment and be rational. A bunch of vibrant, active people will not likely embrace your mom and become her BFF. She will be at the table with the others at her level of mobility and that will be her social group. If you want to keep moving her every time the depression comes back, sure, go ahead. Perhaps buy a moving truck because I promise, you every few months if not sooner she will be miserable again. You cannot run away from depression. You have to treat it. She has to make peace with this stage of life and perhaps process her feelings of superiority. She isn't accepting that this is where she is now. ALs have beauty parlors. I think if she isn't grooming herself that is due to her issues and not because everyone where she is us ugly and unkempt.[/quote]

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