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When siblings clash over caring for aging parents

My brother and I are both dealing with our mother's declining health and we have completely different approaches to caregiving - he wants to control everything and I want to accept what is - and we're fighting more than we're helping her.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Different strategies for managing shared loss create conflict that undermines the very care they're trying to provide.

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