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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Because they know once you put them in there you’ll never come get them out. Would you want to live in a hospital in your dying days, kids coming to visit once a week if you’re lucky. Never knowing which staff are good or bad, having absolutely zero control over a life you once had complete control over?

I’d find her a more suitable arrangement.[/quote]

Assisted living is not a nursing home and it is not a "hospital".

Not sure about the "visit" comment but going to assisted living doesn't make people visit less. [/quote]

I think that poster doesn't understand what leads to people not visiting. When parents go into AL in time to enjoy it and they do it before they create total chaos for years, people visit. You want to see the parent happy in an appropriate living situation with friends. It's when you have spent years with a challenging parent upending you life for their issues with little to no appreciation and you finally get them into residential only after a hospital stay and against your will that you are just done. You are burned out. Maybe now your inlaws have issues to or your teen is now struggling with mental health issues that you didn't catch in the early stages because EVERYTHING revolved around challenging elder...elder who wasn't even in your home...so how hard could it be?  :roll: That's what people who don't get it say.

So, yes there are elders nobody visits and I am willing to bet money if you talked to the family, you would hear plenty of horror stories why.[/quote]

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