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When siblings disagree about caring for aging parents

My brother and I are both trying to figure out how to care for our aging mother, but we have completely different ideas about what she needs and we keep making decisions separately that contradict each other. She's caught in the middle and I think we're making everything harder for her, but every conversation we have about it turns into old family dynamics where nothing gets resolved.

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