My mom and I are both dealing with my dad's early-stage dementia and we keep having these terrible fights about how much independence to give him — she wants to protect him from everything and I think we're infantilizing him, but then something scary happens and I wonder if she's right. We can't keep doing this alone and against each other.
More people experience this than they realize.
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