If the senior can't walk around the neighborhood alone without getting lost, you enforce the requirement. If the senior cannot safely navigate stairs alone well, you get the idea. So instead of gratitude for all your efforts, you may get attitude. Recognize that it will be easy for you to go overboard placing extra burden on yourself and unnecessarily reducing the independence of your senior. It is a difficult balance to determine.
Seniors are often cold.
If you have your favorite TV shows, you may hear about how silly they are. And, of course, parents often feel obligated to provide advice. In the big picture, these are small considerations, but you should be prepared for them. In many cases, an elderly parent ends up in the home of an offspring strictly due to lack of funds to support any other option. It is important to realize that this can cause you to feel resentment.