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Yes, please share your experiences with us and thank you very much. We all can learn from each other. Welcome!
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By all means, yes please share any helpful advice or suggestions and thank you for being selfless 🙏
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Would love to hear. Each of our situations are different and the same. Was your mom lonely and basically gave up?
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IamPATT Dec 2019
Hello! You are right; each situation is different. That's what's important. One thing that seemed to please my mom was this: I make a point of bringing in something from nature outside...a beautiful spray of leaves in autumn...a piece of a pine tree branch in the winter that smelled so spicy. She seemed to perk up and feel the leaves or pine needles and also we could talk about how the snow in the winter could fall on the pine branch and look so pretty.
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In my Mom's and and spouse's situation I always looked to the site for information and insight.

I've concluded it takes a village to care for an elderly just as it takes a village to raise a child.

I would like to know your experiences.
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IamPATT Dec 2019
Yes! We were fortunate, I think, because her friends wanted to come see her and tell her about what they had been doing, etc. I remember one time that Agnes, and her granddaughter (about 10 years old), came along and gave my mom a big sign with big letters (in different colors) and it said over and over Happy 100 Birthday!! My mom laughed and laughed and believe it or not, she had lived to be 100!
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Please join in. I’m a fellow former caregiver. Welcome to the forum.
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IamPATT Dec 2019
Glad to have your note; perhaps we can remember the good times when we were called upon to be caregivers. My mom and I shared times together when she moved to my community and lived in an apartment and later when we shared a rental home that didn't have steps for her to use. As time went along, I obtained a power lift recliner which was a big help for other helpers and for me. I learned how to transfer a person from the raised recliner to travel chair and into and out of bed. Thinking back, I can hardly realize how I did it!
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