My Mom Needs More Care Than We Can Give

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4.4 • 6K Ratings

🗓️ 30 January 2024

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Romona would like to find professional help for her 94-year-old mother instead of taking turns with her siblings to care for her. Email questions or comments: [email protected] - Participate on the radio program: call 1-800-Dr-Laura / 1-800-375-2872 or make an appointment https://www.drlaura.com/make-an-appointment.

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0:00.0	Thanks for listening to my call of the day podcast. You can hear my live
0:04.7	radio program Monday through Friday from 2 to 5 p.m. Eastern time on serious
0:09.5	XM Triumph 111.
0:11.1	Ramona, welcome to the program.
0:14.0	Good evening, Dr. Laura, thank you so much.
0:16.0	Good evening.
0:17.0	Thank you.
0:18.0	Making time for me.
0:20.0	Very excited to talk to you.
0:22.0	Thank you. My dilemma at the moment is because I am one of seven
0:29.9	children and our mother is 94.
0:36.4	One of my older sisters has been
0:41.1	living with her for almost 40 years and in the last four years she has declined enough that
0:52.0	she needs a lot more care than my sister can provide on her own.
0:58.0	How do you know that for certain? How do you know that for certain?
1:01.0	How do you know that for certain?
1:02.0	I can help because I have witnessed the need that the need that the needs that the needs that mom has that include physical as well as dementia and so the two of them did move in with one of my brothers and sister-in-law and the three of them
1:29.8	together have been doing what they can and now all three of them are ill. As a matter of fact,
1:38.9	my sister just got released from the hospital and other siblings and I believe that it is largely
1:50.0	due to it's just being too much for them. Well, that's your opinion, that isn't necessarily fact, but what do they say?
2:07.0	Well, what I was calling for was to get some ideas about how to approach my sister about having a
2:19.9	conversation a few years ago we did talk to the three of them about having a
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