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[quote=Anonymous]I'm not sure whether people will do anything different. I do know that boomers are actually, contrary to media perception of them as entitled and self-centered, the first generation to do huge amounts of senior caregiving. The Longitudinal Study of Generations out of California has shown the that boomer parents and grandparents did very little caregiving, even for living relatives. I have PTSD from doing this care and it's ruined my own retirement. I'm obsessed with not living too long to the point where I do my own cognitive testing and will "check out" in Dignitas if medical aid in dying is not available for me in the early stages of Alzheimer's. If I get cancer in my 70s I won't treat it as I don't want to live long enough to get dementia. So yeah, it's destroyed my future but all that counts is whether the oldest-old can age in place and live forever, not the fallout on anybody else. [/quote]
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