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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]"[b]If you don't already know Mom and Dad's neighbors, go around, introduce yourself and pass out your phone numbers."
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Stop expecting neighbors to keep an eye on your parents.  I've been there and done that and it's a ridiculous burden.  I had a neighbor with full blown Alzheimer's and the kids didn't believe me when I described how she was locking herself out of the house and not knowing which key fit the door or that she would "garden" in the same spot for hours. They thought I was exaggerating. She ended up falling down her basement stairs and fracturing her skull.   
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On the one hand, I don't disagree that you can expect to burden neighbors with your parents.

On the other hand, perhaps there needs to be an app where people can find each other for this kind of arrangement.  So, if your parents are in DC and mine are in Boston, then the two connect and it is a reciprocal arrangement.

I have provided my information to the adult children of elderly neighbors.  There is no expectation that we are monitoring their parents, but they have called a couple of times when they for some reason could not get in contact with their parents and wanted "proof of life".  So far, dead cell phones or other innocuous reasons.[/quote]

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