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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

Why does the age of the parent’s spouse factor in with how often someone checks in with their own parent?[/quote]

+1 seriously![/quote]

If the concern is genuinely that they might be dying, then if matters because they have someone else who is able to take care of them in the vast majority of circumstances. Whatever happened here is the outlier, not a normal experience for someone in their 60s.

DP.[/quote]

But the responsibility of checking on the 95 year old parent remains, no matter whose care they are in, in my opinion.  The presence of a spouse does not make that irrelevant.[/quote]

That makes sense if your primary motivation is to fulfill an abstract responsibility. If you're motivated by what will actually make the person safer, then it does matter. Would you call a parent in a nursing home every day? It can't possibly make them safer, so if you would then it's motivated by something else. Safety has been the main reason advanced in this thread, so it seems like it's relevant to most people.[/quote]

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