Getting older is very hard. I recently had to start having a cleaning company come in every couple of weeks to help me keep things cleaner.

I would talk to your parents and see if they'd like you to call and get someone to come out and haul the old recliner away (they should have asked to see if they could have paid the store to do that; we just got a new mattress :-) and maybe some bags of stuff you could work with your mom to have ready?

When things start to slide it can get harder to get them back up to "okay". But we called a cleaning crew who came and did the whole house, 1-1/2 days, 9 hours of cleaning (I don't dust either and can't do floors well like bathroom and kitchen, etc. and my husband smokes so his porch walls, ceiling and windows were "yellow" instead of light tan, etc., took them 3 hours to clean just his little 9 x 9 porch!).

Just getting ready for the cleaners (I also had the junk haulers come out the same day) was hard, sorting through all my little stuff and throwing stuff out, donating it to charity, boxing the stuff I wanted to save and putting the boxes in my car so the shelves/surfaces would be clear for them to clean, etc.).

I don't think your mother is ever going to not need your help from now on but she is really fortunate she has you. If I were you though, I think I would schedule your time and/or see if you could rope a good friend, cousin, other relative into helping you occasionally and figure out ways to help your parents deal with the "big" stuff (like the recliner problem).