jmcquown wrote:

> My dad and his sister arranged for my paternal grandmother to have "meals on
> wheels" delivered. They tried to bring her some healthy food as she was
> literally a shut-in and starving herself to death. She said she didn't
> "like" them and wouldn't eat. Then they tried to have a care-giver come
> stay with her. She didn't "like" them, either.
>
> God Bless you for what you are doing. Grandma didn't "like" anyone, and
> because of that she died much sooner than she should have.

My sister in law's mother is one of the sweetest women you could ever know. She
is almost 90 and her physical and mental health has been slipping. She didn't
like the people bringing her Meals On Wheels. My SIL would order them and then
her mother would make her cancel them. Within a week she would be in the ER with
her heart pounding away at close to 200 beats per minute because her
electrolytes were all out of balance. She was almost starving to death because
she didn't get hungry and could not remember if she had eaten.

SIL ended up putting her mother in a very nice "home" . The mother is furious
about it. She calls from the "home" once or twice a week and yells and screams
at SIL , then calls back a few hours later to apologize.

Growing old is a bitch.