I try to tell her in the sweetest way and she still gets offended. It comes to a point where her clothes starts to smell. She says she takes a bath, but my nose tells me otherwise. I very keen to odor, so just going into her room bothers me. I'm the only person who takes care of her. I work, she's home by herself until I get home, so i Don't know if she takes a bath or not, she says she does. This is frustrating, I can't even touch the subject, she starts saying that I'm offending her. Advice please.
For myself I have found the bath towels are getting too big to handle.... as one ages and has less strength, a wet towel starts to weight a ton. I could never find a bath towel that was shorter than my Mom so Mom kept using her old thin towels even though you could almost see through them. Mom just couldn't life the newer towels.
Have Mom bathe when you are home, that would make Mom feel more secure that someone is in the house in case she should fall. And sometimes we have to bribe our elders to do things..... no cake & ice cream until after your bath !!