My Mum 74 has Alzheimers and Dad 77 has cognitive impairment.
I was brought up with every Friday being Mums housework day.
Now Mums housework day is spread across Friday to Sunday, and maybe no day!
It is hard to see the brand new granny flat built for my parents 8 yrs ago on our property slowly decline into one that needs repairs, cleaning, painting and general maintenance.
They had a flood at the back of their house which neither told us about, with Dad saying it was the rain. Apparently it had been like that for weeks the ground was so sodden.
It was a burst water pipe! My husband fixed it within a matter of minutes.
Their bath was so dirty with a great big ring around it, in one of my mad moments I scratched in the dirt " Clean Me"
Mum was wild at me, and Dad blamed the dirt on a new cleaning product Mum had used.
To get around it, I told Mum that I had bought a new type of cleaning cloth and could I try it on her bath, to see if it worked because if it didn't I was going to take it back to the shop and get my money back
Mum agreed and the bath came up good as new
Ideally what I would like to do is for Mum & Dad to go to my sisters for several days so that I could get a cleaning company in, and a repair man to do some general maintenance, buts it's not going to happen
They are also entitled to home help for general housework, but have declind also.