Another one with fingers crossed that she goes, and enjoys it
Mil has been going to a day care centre, 3 days (well, 4 hours!) a week for a few months now. As soon as she walks through the door, she is beaming, she is greeted warmly, and when she comes home, she is full of tales of what she has had for lunch (by the time she gets home she has forgotten what it actually was, but always insists it was 'sausages', and usually that she has enjoyed them
) and is often delighted at having won some small prize at the bingo.
However, like your Mum, before she actually goes, each and every day, she complains that she doesn't like it, its full of 'old people'. She uses every excuse in the book to try and persuade us not to take her - this morning its because its raining, and she swears she has no coat, despite me showing her the THREE hung up. She will insist she is ill, has no clothes, that she has told them she won't be in today, she hasn't any lippy, that this 'isn't her usual day for going' - we just stand firm, and if we have to, we tell her that 'the doctor' has said she must go, and if she is refusing, then she HAS to phone the doctor herself, and explain why. Not wanting any dealings with 'authority', that is the one thing that always (so far) convinces her. And we get her there, and as I said, once she walks through the doors - one very happy Mil
It really is good for her, and its also very good for us, so even if Mum says 'never again' (which Mil did, the second time she was due to go) I really hope that you can find a way to keep her attending.
Good luck x