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When families avoid difficult conversations about aging

My elderly mom has been having memory issues and my sister and I disagree about how much help she actually needs, and Mom herself keeps insisting she's fine, and we're all dancing around the real conversation we need to have.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The fear of naming what's happening is preventing you from making decisions that serve everyone's actual needs.

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