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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Moving parents into a house with your kids is a disaster. It’s [b]exhausting and steals so much time from your spouse and children.[/b]

They should move to continuous care facilities where they can live independently and have their own identity and friends.

Reclaim your life and enable your dad to have one of his own,[/quote]

This was our experience as well. My MIL was with us for 3 years and had a dementia diagnosis bad enough to get disability but not enough to get care/housing.

This was essentially during COVID and she wouldn't eat meals with us or would ask my DH to make her something different while we were in the calamity of making dinner ourselves. She accused us of stealing her money. She would not shower regularly. Our house smelled. Her cat ruined the furniture we bought for her bedroom. We bought the house we live in because she needed a main level bedroom and bath and now we are stuck here even though the layout sucks with kids: 2 up 2 down. She wouldn't take her medications so we had to watch her take them 3-4 times a day. She did not assist with ANYTHING- not even taking her used dishes to the sink. I could only clean or vacuum her room when she was at the doctors office because she would complain about being pushed out.

0 stars. Not recommended. Not every elderly person is sweet and kind and helpful.[/quote]

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