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I’m betting no one has ever told her NO. People like her expect to be catered to and fawned over. It’s time she heard a NO. She’ll fuss and cry and act helpless. Let her.
Why do you support her? She doesn’t appreciate it.
Who doesn't want to be pampered and catered to? Or be served on bended knee?
It's a different story when a person NEEDS to be waited on and fed and everything else because they are invalid and unable to do for themselves.
That's when it is time for a nursing home or 24 hour homecare.
Time to back off the help you have been giving and make her hire aides to care for her or a professional cuddler to sleep with her.
If she can't afford to hire care and can't care for herself, it's off to the facility she goes.
You are not obligated to provide the hands-on care for this person, or (heaven forbid) financially support her. Her needs and demanding behavior will only increase, so you need to decide where your boundaries are because she is not going to see nor respect them nor care that you are burning out at her expense.
If she has no family or PoA then your option is to contact APS and report her as a vulnerable adult and then allow the social workers to take over situation and you step fully away. The more you keep yourself as her solution, the more you will burn out. Her county's social services can eventually acquire guardianship of her and handle all her needs: medical, financial, etc. After that, you can maintain any type of relationship with her that you want, without the burnout.
There are many reasons not to sleep in a bed with "a friend," especially one who is sick and/or injured. You don't know if she has or will start having night terrors. You don't know what she'll do if she thinks you're dangerous to her. What if she dreams you touched her inappropriately?
If she's 92 and had a fall, it's reasonable to think she may have cognitive issues. You mention dementia behaviors, so you're aware. You aren't obligated to care for her, and you need to get out now before it becomes much worse. You need to stop this before it becomes (1) dangerous for you and (2) dangerous for her.
She should go to a facility where she'll be cared for 24/7 by qualified people. She won't feel so alone there.
Tell this person plainly. No one is going to sleep in the bed with them. Also that if they need to be spoon-fed like an infant and have to be supervised every second like an infant, that they need to be in a nursing home.
I was a caregiver for 25 years mostly to elderly and I can tell when an elder is playing "boo-boo" with the false helplessness. I never tolerated that for a second. You shouldn't either.
Do not feed her. When she gets hungry enough, she'll feed herself.
Can be YOUR baby, or not. Up to you!
Find a teddy bear for her to sleep with. Yes it's infantile.. senile or infantile.. it's a teddy bear, not too much harm. Try it. She may toss it aside, look daggers at you but grow back up (if manipulation) or will LOVE it (as this suits her level of need (whether that be anxiety, playfullness, cognitive declinre).
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