I came home to visit my elderly mother, but when I offered to help bathe her, she shrank back in terror – usnews

“I don’t have time.”

The fear in her voice made me look up.

“What do you mean?”

“They’re sending me away tomorrow.”

“Where?”

“I don’t know. Chloe said a van is coming at nine.”

I felt something inside me harden.

“Did she name the facility?”

“She called it Willow something.”

“Willow Haven?”

Mother nodded.

I knew the name.

Willow Haven was a private memory-care facility nearly three hours away. It was expensive, isolated, and notorious among elder-law attorneys for making family visits difficult. Two years earlier, the state had investigated complaints that residents were being heavily sedated without adequate medical justification.

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