Most of my siblings live in the same town as my mother, so they see her a few times a week. I live 7 hours away, and I drive down about every 3 months and stay with her at her house for a few days.

Part of my job is to keep a food & drink diary of those days and evaluate how Mom is doing vs how she was doing last time I saw her. This is part of how we keep track of slow slides that my siblings can't see. I kind of hate it, but it works. :(