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When siblings disagree about caregiving approaches for aging parents

My sister and I have been taking care of Mom together for three years and we have completely different approaches — I want to hire more help and she wants to keep doing everything ourselves — and we're both exhausted but can't agree on what exhausted even means. It's starting to feel like we're failing her and each other.

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