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[quote=Anonymous]The best thing you can do is chose the service you will hire to help with aging or meet with an expert on residential places in the area. You should not go into making friends thirsty for someone to be there for you as you age. Nobody wants to feel like they are being used. Many of us burn out from care-giving and are simply look for friends to enjoy life with and relax. So many people with "family" take terrible advantage of family and eat their young for their own aging needs. If you cultivate nice friendships, then hopefully those people will want to visit you in the hospital and drop by, but your goal should not be finding people to meet your needs should you become ill. Pay people to be your caregivers and just enjoy your friends.

There are no guarantees in life for any of us. What if you had a family determined to keep you alive at all cost. Happened in my family-ignoring hospice and leaving a family member a vegetable because they assumed it was the right thing to do. The death was awful and if this person didn't have "family" he could have died peacefully.[/quote]

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