10/24/2025
"My father died a few years ago and my sibling and I have become my mother’s caregivers. Mom expects us to come to her home every weekend to clean the house top to bottom. She is quite demanding and exacting. She wants the floors hand scrubbed, every surface dusted, the laundry done, the grass cut, and on and on. The thing is, we are adults with homes, children, and spouses. It is really quite difficult for us to spend so much time working on mom’s house. We do not want to tell her that we cannot do it anymore, but that is what we both want to say. What do we do?"
One reader asked, and we answered in this week’s Caregiver Column. Click the link to read. https://horizonhomecareandhospice.org/blog/post/trying-to-maintain-moms-house
