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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]"Assisting your Dad is modeling loving behavior to your children." It's actually giving your kids a bad role model for aging, so they see the elderly as childlike, petulant and unable to do anything for themselves.  The Longitudinal Study of Generations from California has shown that the boomers are actually the first group that did this caregiving en masse.  Before that the boomer parents and grandparents actually did not support the elderly very much, even for living relatives. They would move and let the elders fend for themselves and the parents were okay with that.

I agree with Emanuel Ezekiel, we are living too long.  I don't have kids to dump on so I have to be proactive.  No cancer screening, medical aid in dying for anything that qualifies and "business class to Zurich" for early Alzheimer's.  I believe in quality not quality of life and let younger people live a normal life.[/quote]

I don't understand this, in previous generations most people lived in multigenerational houses or lived down the street in the same community.  It is only in the past few generations that mobility has been such a factor.  [/quote]

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