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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you want to take care of your parents then do so.  Parents, to me, are selfish expecting it.  I don't have any kids and sure wouldn't be dumping any responsibilities on nieces.  I can't put my head in the sand and pretend I will never get Alzheimer's or figure out what to do if I need personal care.  Parents seem to do this all the time.

Most parents didn't do any of the same level of care for their older relatives.  And it had nothing to do with them not having parents.  The Longitudinal Study of Generations from California which tracked boomers, their parents, and grandparents showed that boomer women in particular are the first group that did caregiving en masse.  Their parents and grandparents didn't do all that much so moving away and that was that.  It's a big myth that previous generations were doing this.  I didn't even realize that most of my senior neighbours had living parents as they maybe visited them once a year.    [/quote]

Who do think, in the course of history, took care of the elderly?

Their own family, PP.

With increased life expectancy, it's certain that eldercare has become more prevalent. But there weren't any nursing homes hundreds of years ago, or even a hundred years ago (there were poorhouses, which weren't the same).

You are incredibly uninformed and stupid.[/quote]

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