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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How many responses are from 50-60 years old with a 95 year old parent married to a loving wife in her 60s? [/quote]

Here's the thing: this situation went horribly wrong.  If his three kids took turns checking in every couple of days (so, each makes a call once a week) then the possibility his death of dehydration on the floor of his home might have been eliminated as someone would have noticed that he / his wife were not in touch.

That seems like it would have been a good thing.

That said, each of us can learn from this, if we're open to it, to avoid letting our elderly parents end up in this kind of situation.

If your situation with your parent is so bad that you don't actually care if they die of dehydration on the floor of their hallway, then great!  Don't call.  But, the rest of us (who think our parents deserve basic human dignity, even in death) might want to learn from someone else's experience to avoid our parents ending up in such a situation.[/quote]

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