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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]"Listen - you are not senile. You are a fully capable, grown ass adult. I have my own family and a job I need to take care of. Your job, right now, it to manage your own happiness and your own entertainment. You have money that you earned in your life, at your disposal. It is now there to help you manage your own care needs, and your needs for entertainment and social life. I can help you connect with people, or research things, but it has to be YOUR job to actually reach out and make connections with people and find things that are enjoyable. It can't be me all the time. Again, you are a fully capable, cogent adult. I expect that you can and will manage your own social life."[/quote]

Woah, I hope you're not in my family.  At the end of life, family matters.  To so blithely say use money as a replacement strikes me as insanely cold.  I'd wager your politics are on the left, too.

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Wait, what?  I've cared for this person for over a decade. And he isn't at the end of life - nowhere near it. But he just has become dependent on me for everything, not because he has to, but because it is just easier for him - and I just won't have it any longer. My own health and sanity are being sacrificed to provide this care for him that he *could* manage by himself (or yes, hire someone to do it), it's just less convenient for him.

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