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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Let's be extremely honest, would the caregiving functions be falling significantly in your wife.  Because that's actually what's involved with moving in.  Caring for someone in that manner is both mentally and physically draining.[/quote]

Yes, this needs to be pointed out to OP. Would YOU want to be the main caregiver for your in-law? Cook, feed, bathe, clothe someone, every single day? Deal with tantrums and whining and confusion? Watch someone decline day by day? Do the ER run every once in while, always in the dead of night?

It's exhausting.
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OMG.  Wait until you are old and ill and your children won't help to care for you  Yuck.[/quote]

And it's highly likely! Your adult children are not trained nurses and don't know what to do with you if you're ill and require a lot of caretaking. In old times eldercare at home was possible, because people were not on 100 medications and rarely lived past becoming unable to care for themselves. Sure, somebody might have been bedridden for a week or so with an illness, like we all can, but not for years! Just hypertension treatment (considered fatal 50 years ago) helps people to live much longer, without it, most would pass away within a month![/quote]

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