Writing for families, and for their parents.
These are about the ordinary parts of this — the guilt, the phone, the long flat afternoon, the pill box, the story she tells every time. We say where our own app fits and where it does not, and then we get out of the way. Read them without buying anything.
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You are not failing her
because you live three hours away
Two feelings arrive together and get treated as one. Only one of them is a problem you can work on.
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She calls me six times a
day. Or she doesn't answer at all.
They sound like opposite problems. They are one phone being asked to carry two jobs at once.
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What my mom actually does all day
The CD player is eighteen inches from her chair and never gets switched on. Why that happens, and what changes it.
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Reminders help. They don't prove
anything.
Every way families try to solve the missed dose, and the exact place each one stops working. Ours is on that list, near the bottom.
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The stories she tells every
time — keep them
The proper sit-down recording never happens. The story you have heard forty times is the one worth having anyway.
If you would rather skip the reading, what families see and never see explains the app from your side, and this is the page to show your parent. Questions are welcome first — support@guardiansarah.com or 608-630-2602 reaches a person.