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[quote=Anonymous]I say this as someone whose parents are in the same situation.  This is not the trip for them.  Assuming they do make the trip having them there will take a lot away from the graduate.  My parents will not be coming to my child's college graduation in May.  To be brutally honest, I don't want to have to deal with logistics of managing them when I should be celebrating my kid.

Logistically it's not really possible to have someone with them the entirety of the flight  unless a family member flies out and back with them.  Even if you could find someone it's going to be insanely expensive.  My parents have a helper that we pay $60/hr.  For what you'd need you will be paying a lot more. For a cross country flight you'd be looking at 8ish hours one way. What happens when they get there? Does the person turn around and fly back?  Stay in a hotel (all the while you're paying them)?  All of the plus the price of the ticket.

My parents are perfectly fine mobility wise but are starting to have cognitive difficulties. When they have to fly,  we someone who drives them to the airport and walks them to the check in desk.  From there they take wheelchairs through security to the gate.  They again get wheelchairs (when they remember) off the plane and to baggage claim.  The wheelchair assistance will make sure they make it through security and onto the plane.

I honestly wouldn't do it for a graduation.  Go out and see them after the kid graduates.

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