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[quote=Anonymous]Yep. Went through that. Stupidest thing they did was buy a new house with a master bedroom upstairs in mid70s. By 80 they were out (one dead, one moved into a slightly more accessible home though I can’t imagine she’ll be able to handle it for more than a couple years).

Thing is, it was their decisions to make. We kids staged it interventions twice - once insisting on a trip to the ER after a fall which resulted in a multiday hospitalization and another time to get the right level of in-home hospice care when mom was in denial and not able to adequately care for dad. In the end, my dad died at home as he wanted to and lived pretty independently up until the last weeks of his life which was always his wish so I’m pretty at peace with it. The last years were bumpy and hard to watch and he likely would still be alive if he took better care of his health but he lived how he wanted to live and ultimately I respect that. It made the bad decisions a easier to live with over when we accepted that was what he wanted and backed off on trying to impose what we thought were better choices except in a couple extreme situations as described above. [/quote]

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