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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What is aging in place? So sorry this is happening. Seems like assisted living and an aide is a lot of money. What places would people recommend? [/quote]

I am so salty when it comes to this. It's aging until the end in your own home. I have a parent who insisted on this while she had full cognitive capacity in part because she buried her head in the sand about how poorly her own parents aged. She let her sibling do all the work and it pretty much killed her sibling even with tons of hired help. It is incredibly unrealistic unless you age well and have a ranch style home that is totally set up for aging issues. The worst part is my mother just rots at home. Her social network has dwindled into nothing and she is angry and hostile.The brain needs social interaction where you are forced to use social skills. Bossing around family members and throwing tantrums does not help the brain function properly. At a facility is easier to make sure they consistently take meds (including mood stabilizing meds) and they get that vital peer interaction even if means a peer saying "Don't talk to me like that!"The beautiful thing is when they form friendships at these facilities and get that little spark again and they see it like college dorm life for the aging. One of my autns aged backwards once she was surrounded by peers and making friends and didn't have to worry about meals and cleaning.[/quote]

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