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She has no responsibility whatsoever, gets waited on hand and foot, watches tv and her tablet all day, but would rather go in her incontinence product than TRY to get up, and takes pleasure in watching me clean the bathroom and change her bedding once she actually does get up, like I owe her the luxury of doing this. It’s very manipulative and cruel. Showering is the same thing, she smells up the whole house and then if you talk to her about showering, she tries to act like a victim. She doesn’t qualify for a nursing home or an aide, because there is nothing technically wrong with her. She’s just controlling and manipulative.

Is she living in your house? Move her out. Are you living in her house? Move out. In the meantime, STOP waiting on her hand and foot. Stop doing anything for her. Let her get her own meals, etc. If she wants to sit in her own dirty diaper, let her. If she wants to sleep on filthy sheets, let her. Why are you doing any of this for her? You deserve much, much better, so extricate yourself from her manipulation and cruelty. Let her fend for herself.
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Your mother either has dementia or mental illness. It’s simply not normal to be content to sit in one’s waste. Regardless, she’s proven she’s not changing, so it’s time that you did. There’s no requirement that you live together or continue in this role. If you’re living in her house, move out. If she’s living in yours, let her know she’s no longer welcome and will be moving out. Please value your health and safety, don’t continue to do this, it’s not good for mom or you
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No dementia? Are you sure? What normal person does this?

Time for her to go into a facility rather than what you've got going on.

Please consider your lack of boundaries for yourself. You need to defend them because she's never going to acknowledge them.
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BurntCaregiver 9 hours ago
@Geaton

No "normal" person acts like this. There are certain types of people who are not elderly and don't have dementia who will though. They derive a cruel sort of pleasure knowing that someone has to clean up their crap and urine. It's a kind of power trip.

I had care clients like this over the years. They had no difficulty getting to their toilets when there wasn't a family member or paid caregiver in the home to clean it up. I used to call it 'selective incontinence'. I had one client who would soil up everything when she knew I was coming. One time she collected her excrement, put it onto a chux pad and threw it at me from her bed. I cleaned it up, put it onto the same chux pad, and threw it right back at her then walked away. I quit that agency that very day and went into private duty cases only.

I worked for a sweet old lady who had her son and DIL living with her. The DIL was morbidly obese but could get around and didn'd even use a walker. She would pee and crap in adult diapers all day. She'd get up and walk a few feet once a day to use the bathroom. The rest of the time she would take her soiled diaper off and stick it in a garbage bag next to her recliner in the living room. These were big black Hefty bags filled with soiled adult diapers. At any given time there would be at least two or three full bags in the living room. She expected me to dispose of them and clean up after her. No way. I didn't work for her and always refused. She would call my supervisor every day and get told the same thing. I didn't work for her. Some people even if they're not old and don't have dementia like the power trip of watching someone cleaning up their crap.
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I hate to break it to you and your narrative that your mom is just "controlling and manipulative" but to those of us looking in it is more than obvious that your mom now has some kind of mental decline/dementia as truly no person in their right mind would opt to pee and poop in their adult diaper if they were able to make it to the bathroom themselves.
Incontinence is one of many signs of dementia, along with not wanting to shower too.
You are not doing your mom(or yourself) any favors by being in denial about what truly is going on with her, and the sooner you can get her diagnosed and get yourself better educated about the horrific disease of dementia, the better off you and your mom will be.
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Geaton777 4 hours ago
I know, right? My 100-yr old Aunt with advanced dementia was still having her BMs in the toilet up until the end.
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I really find it difficult to believe that your mother does not have dementia.
First I have to ask why she is living with you.
Second I have to ask why you put up with it.
If she is able bodied then she cleans her own bedding, he own clothing.
While she will not qualify for a "nursing home" the terms now accepted is Skilled Nursing Facility she may well need Assisted Living possibly Memory Care or if she does begin to care for herself then she might do well in Independent Living.
As I said I find it difficult to believe that she does not have some cognitive problems. But if she does not then it is time for you to have a very frank discussion with her.
You tell her that you are done.
You tell her that you and she are going to begin looking for a facility that can meet her care needs. Set up several tours.
Give her 30 days.
You may have to go to Court and LEGALLY evict her. If that does happen you have to follow the time line established by the Court. It may take you 60 to 90 days to get a Court date and the Judge may give her another 30 days to vacate. So you may be looking at 4 to 6 more months. But in that time you need to set and stick to boundaries that you establish.
And a side comment....
If at anytime in this process she is hospitalized you tell the care team, the discharge person, the Social Worker that you are unable to safely care for her at home any longer. It is no longer safe for you to do so.
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Tell mom you'll no longer clean her messes up and then don't.

Then get her evaluated for dementia immediately. Once she's diagnosed, THEN she will qualify for Skilled Nursing care.
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PeggySue2020 3 hours ago
Leaving someone to stew in their own feces at your house isn’t practicable.
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Sorry, removing duplicate post.
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Your mother’s behavior is not normal. And your behavior is not normal either. Why are you putting up with this? Why are you doing all these things for her, when she has “no dementia or cognitive problems”. You say that “there is nothing technically wrong with her. She’s just controlling and manipulative”.

Your question is grammatical and well written, so you have brains and you had a reasonable education. There seems to be no reason for you to behave abnormally as well as 'mother'.
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Beedevil66 12 hours ago
If you've watched the show My 600lb life this sounds similar to the James K story, where his family and wife, Lisa waited on him hand and foot. Sadly, he passed. Before then, he did nothing to change his situation.
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