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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I haven't read many of the responses yet but I have NO idea how on earth my 87 yr old mother would be coping at all if it were not for me (only daughter)!! Especially with this pandemic!  
I am crucial in practically all of areas of her life right now - social, getting groceries/cooking (more so now due to pandemic), emails, paying bills/organizing bills, organizing a social group (this was pre-covid 19, now there is nothing and she is not fully understanding why), doctor, dentist (pre-covid), getting her assistance with a minor injury that she just ignored and would have got so much worse etc. etc.
Explaining the pandemic situation almost daily and why she can't do this and that........
Note that she travelled BY HERSELF internationally up until last year and is in good shape (memory getting worse recently) so she does not need "nursing care" and YET she would be lost without me. I am the only person who is involved, nobody comes by, nobody calls. However, there really is nobody to check on her, we have a small family and her friends live abroad or have since passed away.[/quote]

There are services you can hire to do this.

There are no guarantees even with adult children. If I had a dollar for every story I heard of adult children taking advantage or being estrangement and not involved I would be wealthy. Those stories also include mom suddenly having a boyfriend who takes advantage and marries her and the adult kids are powerless.
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