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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]She has the money, OP. It makes all the difference! I assume many people would do this if they had the money. There's nothing to criticize, but I also think it's normal.

My aunt's in-laws both developed dementia, and despite being upper-middle class, there were financial and logistical concerns in putting them both in separate memory care, so the family ended up paying for 24/7 care in the in-laws' own home. Two patients together with a rotating team of aides.

My MIL has Parkinson's and expressed the desire to stay home, so her sons have arranged everything so she can do that, with cooks and cleaners and nurse visits for her treatments, plus a night nurse. Today my son, who attends college near her house, had a nice Sunday lunch with her. She gets visits from all her grandchildren. She's very lucky to have the family and financial support to be able to live like this.[/quote]

I don’t know that having money makes all the difference. There is absolutely a mental hang up for people to use that money to care for your loved one outside the home. I mean, my parents have money and could even bring themselves to use to hire housecleaning.[/quote]

PP you replied to. It's because Emma is younger, and still thinks like a healthy adult person. A lot of older people without dementia lose just enough executive function and develop anxiety such that they have great difficulty doing new things. My parents are like this, and every other elderly person I know is like this too. But Bruce's wife is not at that age yet! She's clearly a decent, competent human being... so she's doing the right thing. Honestly, in terms of operational support, she's in the position of adult daughter to Bruce, not wife.

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Emma has kids still in the house , too, so she thinks like a sandwich generation adult child. [/quote]

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