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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The "people" who care for elderly people at home are nearly always women, and many of this women end up quitting their own jobs and sabotaging their own futures in order to do so.  We act like this is natural and like it doesn't harm anyone.  This isn't true.  it's exhausting, thankless work and many of the arguments about the second shift and women doing twice as much around the house that occurred when there were young children in the home can resurface again when there are elderly people in the home requiring care.  Scenarios like a guy who still golfs every Saturday while his wife stays home to look after his elderly mother and father.  Women who spend years doing a second shift in their twenties and thirties and then again in their own fifties and sixties.  Women who don't go to their own doctor's appointments because they can't find a babysitter for mom, so mom gets medical care while her daughter ends up with some undiagnosed disease until it's too late. It's amazing how often we undervalue women's labor and overlook the sheer amounts of work they do. [/quote]

I am a man who does all of that and it seems to me like you are undervaluing men since you never once acknowledged that men do this work as well. [/quote]

DP. They said "nearly always women." That is true. I say this even though my retired father did a lot for his mother-in-law while my mother was still working full time.

If you ask people who work in the industry who are their health contacts are for the elderly person, it's going to be a daughter 8 or 9 times out of 10.

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