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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Try to understand my point.
No one is saying that people shouldn't plan for the future and all its possible consequences. I am saying that people in the 50 to 75 ish group are perfectly able to do this without their kids helping them or guiding them or taking them by the hand to these resources. They are perfectly able at this age to be completely cogent and probably better at this than their kids who are in their 30s 40s and even 50s.
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I don't know about all this.  [b]My parents had pretty substantial decline around age 70 and then after isolating for two years they really lost a lot of mental capacity, energy, executive functioning, and social skills. [/b] My mom is 76 and makes errors on her medications, loses stuff all the time, and is generally very difficult to be around.  She needs help to manage her day-to-day already.  [/quote]

My parents were the same too.   They were 71 and 73 when Covid hit.   My mom already had slight dementia but went downhill fast --obviously I can't say for sure it was the isolation of Covid but I'm sure that didn't help.  By September 2020 she was still only 71 but completely incapable of functioning. [/quote]

"Only" 71 is the key term here. These examples are outliers, which happens,  but not the majority in this age group. 71 is  alert , productive, smart, etc. 
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