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Hello and welcome back to all home care matters.

If this is your first time visiting us here at the show, thank you for taking time to be with us today.

We appreciate how valuable everyone's time is, and that is why we try and make each episode here at all home care matters something that will hopefully matter to you. On today's show, we are going to talk about diffusing family conflict when mom and dad

need care. If you have siblings, this may be something that you are familiar with. Hopefully,

you have a great support system with your siblings, and this hasn't been an issue. But for many

families, once mom and

dad's health starts to decline, it can lead the conflict and real difficulties when siblings

start needing to make decisions, and sometimes they don't all agree. All too often, it seems that

while mom and dad are healthy and able to make decisions for themselves, things tend to operate

smoothly, but once the children start becoming more and more needed, often this can lead

to power struggles or one of the siblings feeling hurt or left out when they weren't made

the decision maker or in some cases the power of attorney.

We know of a situation where the oldest son in a family of four was designated the power of attorney over his parents years earlier,

only to find out that the youngest sibling had convinced their parents to designate them as the power of attorney.

This situation had really escalated once their parents' health began

needing a significant amount of help and support, and the oldest son never forgave his parents

or his youngest sibling, and it sadly never healed or resolved at the time of his father's

passing. Their mother had preceded their father four or five years prior.

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