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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, thanks for starting this thread. The one thing I would emphasize (which is implicit in everything you listed) is: do not decide you will wait until there is a problem to make decisions about all these issues! Make arrangements (financial, legal, living arrangements, etc.) while you are healthy and independent. Don't create a situation where there if there is a sudden crisis (a stroke! a broken hip! dementia begins!) you, or your kids, are forced suddenly into having to figure everything out under time pressure, emotional stress and so on. That is the worst time to have to make vital decisions. [/quote]

This is so true and now that we have all been through things like a pandemic, it is clear that when your emergency happens people might not be able to drop everything in life to come to you. In our family, I developed an illness and my mother, who was clearly losing it, not only didn't have empathy, but was livid that I was not able to keep dropping everything for her. I had been trying to be proactive for years and years and she insisted on living in denial and would indignantly say "I do not want to talk about this."[/quote]

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