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A difficult lesson in hiring a caregiver for mom

Caregiver eating with elderly woman

It’s All Relative.
July 09, 2011|By Rosemary McClure, Special to the Los Angeles Times

My friend’s phone call numbed me.

Twice in the last week, she said, she’d seen my mother sitting in a car in a neighborhood near her home. “Today she was there for more than two hours in the heat,” she added.

My stomach churned.

Mom suffered from dementia; she could no longer drive, or even speak coherently most of the time. She hadn’t gotten to the area my friend was talking about on her own.

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