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[quote=Anonymous]I'm in my late 30s with elementary aged kids and with parents in their good health (69, 77). They have financial resources, but they (mostly my mom) INSIST on aging in place in their own home with no exceptions. My mom is starting to say lots of strongly worded remarks about this, like after visiting someone in a fancy assisted living facility referring to it as "lovely, but the most depressing place in the entire world." I think this is a status/control thing (lots of things are status things with my mom) but it scares the crap out of me. If they need care, they need to be in a facility that can provide it, not holed up in a house with few/no visitors and an overpriced aide without comprehensive medical training. They will need socialization and medical oversight that I will not be able to provide exclusively. I fear the day I have to make this call, if I ever do. If I have to do this in my 40s I can likely make it work, but in my 20s, yeah. I agree OP. It would've been a nightmare. That said, would there be more younger family members around to help -- uncles, aunts, etc... It may be just different, as opposed to completely terrible. [/quote]

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