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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]^^^ elderly parents going through cancer treatments can go on for years.  It is gone and comes back, etc.  Getting to those numerous appointments and taking care of them when they are too weak after chemo or surgery or hospitalized is a lot.  My MIL went through this with skin cancer for 15 years.

But--yes if it is just an old person with no major issues other than age-related it might be different.  But--often those long terminal illnesses---Parkinsons, cancer, etc. drag on for years.[/quote]

Cancer, heart disease, etc aren't really terminal illnesses until (or unless) they reach a terminal, end life stage.  People can live for years and years with cancer only to die decades down the road from a stroke or whatever.

Obviously, the older they get the more chronic conditions they will likely contend with - HBP, type II diabetes, etc.  People can live with a disease like Alzheimer's for years and years.

That is different than caring for someone who has under a year to live which involves much shorter term planning.[/quote]

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