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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My MIL has had Parkinson's for 20 years and is still lucid, even though she has the pump medication and can only walk with a walker. She REALLY wants to leave her ultra convenient city apartment, which her aides can get to easily, for a suburb house with a garden, because she used to be an avid gardener. We've had difficulty finding a home without steps to access the garden and with a main-level bedroom and full bath! It's just not possible where she is. So now she wants to move to a house WITH steps, and is being very stubborn about it... just because she wants to die surrounded by a garden, basically. A couple of aides have said they'd be open to living in, instead of commuting.

Her children are OK with purchasing the home, but it's still going to take time, it will need a bit of renovation, etc... I don't know if she's actually going to be around to live there, but ultimately I want what's going to make her happy. She seems lucid every time we talk about the stairs, and the distance from the city, but... I'm not sure she really gets that it may affect her quality of life.

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Could you find her a plot in a community garden or see if someone nearby will let her use a patch of their yard?[/quote]

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