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When siblings disagree about aging parent care decisions

My brother and I are both caring for our mom who has dementia and we have completely different approaches to what's best for her. He thinks we should move her to a facility and I want to keep her at home and it's becoming this terrible ongoing argument where we both think the other person doesn't really understand what she needs.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Two people who love the same person are discovering that their different ways of expressing care are creating conflict exactly when they most need to support each other.

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