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DEAR MARGO

Elderly parent’s wish is unfair to only child

  March 13, 2012

Dear Margo: I am the only child of a 92-year-old mother. She’s growing increasingly feeble, mentally and physically, and wants me to promise I’ll never put her in a nursing home. I told her I would do everything humanly possible to keep her out of one, but I could not promise ”never” because I don’t know what will happen in the next few years. Mom came unglued. She told me I was a horrible daughter, selfish, ungrateful - you get the picture. I still take care of her in her own home, but our relationship is now tense. What am I supposed to do?

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