My mum is 91 and has pancreatic cancer - yes its a good age to get to and when I read posts by some of the younger people on this forum, I feel that in many ways she has been lucky to get this far in life relatively healthy and happy. But now as the treatment options run out - she has had two courses of relatively mild chemo that are no longer working - she is just really frightened and angry and taking it out on all around her especially my poor 90 year old father who is doing his best to care for her. He is not well himself and is worsening by the day, yet she berates him and nothing is ever good enough including his driving, his cooking, etc, etc. My siblings and I all try to help but our suggestions such as getting groceries delivered, getting more help, etc are rejected outright and they struggle on getting frailer and iller and angrier! Both my parents are depressed and at least my dad is going to his GP to talk about that and maybe get some antidepressants but my mum refuses to do so as she is feuding with her GP - again! She also thinks that taking anti-depressants is giving in - to what I ask? I thought we had resolved her issues with the GP who even offered to help find another GP but no, its back on again - and mum refuses to talk to her or call her or anything. So she has no medical support apart from her cancer specialist and possibly the local Palliative Care team - neither of who seem to be able to offer a way through with this and tend to deflect the issue according to her. I plan on calling the Pall Care people but my mum doesn't want me to - she seems to think that I am interfering in her life and trying to make her do stuff she doesn't want to do. So, I don't know what to do at present - but any advice on handling the anger (and sometimes nastiness) of an elderly sick mother would be appreciated. She lives 1.5 hours away by car (on a good day) and I try to get up to see her at least once a week but that is also becoming stressful especially when I don't know what I will be confronted with when I get there. She has never been a very easy person to get on with but now she is sick as well, and she really turns on my dad when he is trying to do his best - this just really upsets me (and I did tell her this trying to be tactful but she just dismissed my opinion on the subject) - my dad just dissolves in tears with some of the things she says to him. Sorry for long post! ... View more