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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rodrigo Istalindir" data-source="post: 3783131" data-attributes="member: 2810">Research the 'Baker Act' and find local resources that will help you and your family decide, with an outside perspective, what is best for her.  Taking on something like this can destroy your own health and home.  The nesting syndrome and inability to recognize and deal with living in squalor is a major warning sign that there might be more than depression at work.We went through this with Dad's mom a few years back.  It's not fun, but at a certain point it became obvious that she was no longer capable of taking care of herself, and wouldn't be able to last in a home without 24-hour supervision.  It wasn't so much the medical aspects as the mental ones.</blockquote>