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[quote=Anonymous]I'm sorry, OP.

My MIL ended up dying alone because she refused when her husband died to move closer to any of her children.  On the one hand I get it, she'd lived in the same small town her whole live and uprooting away from her siblings and cousins and friends seemed crazy. But even as she got more frail she refused to consider moving.  Then one day she went into the hospital for an overnight procedure and ended up never going home again. Spent the next year of her life in assisted living before dying in the middle of the night during a window of time when none of her kids were with her.

My DH and his siblings were constantly flying back to their hometown rotating visits to care for things and be with her but it was a huge sacrifice to each of them in terms of expense, work and caring for their own families.  Because, let's face it, all those siblings and friends would visit her but they weren't caring the load of dealing with doctors and finances and so on.

I'm the PP in the real estate post saying I will absolutely retire near my child for this very reason.  
No advice just sympathy.   [/quote]

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