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When siblings disagree on elderly parent care approaches

My brother and I are both taking care of Mom as her dementia gets worse and we have completely different approaches — he wants to hire help and I think we should do it ourselves — and every conversation turns into a fight about money and guilt and what Dad would have wanted.

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Caregiving has become the arena where old family dynamics and different values are playing out under enormous stress.

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