Hopefully, the stock market will have picked up before the three years of rent are up. Is she eligible for any city or county assistance with rent/social worker visits/mental health assistance, etc? For example, in my city, which has excellent elder-care systems, there's a bus that will pick up elders (or otherwise disabled folks), and take them to the supermarket or other errands they might have in common.

Is there any chance you could talk to her doctor about adjusting her meds so she's not so unhappy all the time, which sounds like the depressive side taking over ...

Bipolar Disorder is so often misunderstood, and is so difficult to deal with effectively, I do not envy you one bit.

How do I know all this, when my Dad is healthy and my mom deceased? I first went through the whole aging/becoming unable to live at home/ increasing difficulties with everyday things and eventually Alzheimers with my beloved Great Aunt. We lived closest to her, and she and my mom were dear friends, so I was the nearest to help. I didn't mind, we all loved her very much, and Paul and I ended up buying her house! Then, after Bertha was in the nursing home (a wonderful one, I'd recommend it to anyone) my Mom became ill with ALS.

I told people at the time that I knew way more about nursing homes and the whole deal than any other 32-year-old I knew. And now, 5 1/2 years after Bertha's death, it's still all in my head, that kind of thing gets burned right into memory.