Elder-caregivers

It's hard to explain, but it would bug the hell out of her to have cardboard (or whatever) on the remote. She nearly lost her mind a few years ago when a small piece of my downspout was loose and hanging in an unsightly manner, so a change to her interior decor would be unacceptable.

I want to reiterate that the real problem is that her family does the bare minimum for her, and she relies on us and other neighbors for everything. She calls my wife four or five times a day to ask what day it is, and that's usually four or five calls in a row. She's really past the point where she should be living alone, but she won't budge and her family is content to let her sponge off of her neighbors.

Even if that means us changing the channel and adjusting the volume and turning the tv on or off off for her 20 times daily.