I think I am dealing with some pre-grief issues because I don't feel like doing anything. I am watching my mother just give up. She doesn't want to eat or do much of anything. She says she is ready to die. I am accepting this, but it isn't easy. I am dying in a way also. Does that make sense to anyone?
Mom was all woe is me, but then we went there one day unannounced and caught her having fun with new friends. Boy did she look surprised, like a kid with his hand in the cookie jar.
These shared activities will help you as well.
I don't know if caregivers really get over the issue of moving a loved one into a facitlity; I think the guilt issue is always there, at some level or another.
But you have to balance it with the reasons you did move her there. Could either of you have continued safely in the prior arrangement? If the answer is no, then you've done the best for her. The trick is in acceptance of it, and that's not easy.