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How to divide elder care responsibilities among siblings

My mom is getting older and needs more help but my brother lives across the country and my sister has three kids and somehow I've become the default person for everything. We've never actually sat down and talked about how to share this or what we're each able to do.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

A family is operating on unspoken assumptions about caregiving that are creating resentment and leaving everyone feeling either overburdened or guilty.

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