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When adult siblings can't coordinate aging parent care

My mom is declining and my brother and I are supposed to be coordinating her care but we have completely different ideas about what she needs and neither of us wants to be the one making unilateral decisions. Every conversation about it turns into relitigating our childhood dynamics.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Present caregiving responsibilities are being hijacked by unresolved sibling patterns from decades past.

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