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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This may be a naive question -- but who advocates/cares for these folks once they are elderly?
Let's say they need to get to multiple doctors' appointments or go into hospital and need someone to advocate for them.
I assume some may have friends or family, but many people are busy with their own lives! Usually this task falls to adult children.
How have you seen it play out? [/quote]

You're quite naive. Don't you think adult children also are busy with their own lives? It's more likely that spouses care for each other, and if not, you're on your own as you should expect anyway even if you are a parent. There are many examples of elderly people who are aging well and remain lucid. Think Fauci, Pelosi etc. [b]50 years ago, did you see anyone who was 80 and doing fine? [/b]Probably not because people back then weren't as knowledgeable about taking care of themselves as they do now. The best plan is to maximize your QOL for the maximum time you're alive and die a quick and short death at the end. [/quote]

Absolutely.  Plenty of people lived to be 80 and in decent shape.  A lot of it is genetics, and then people who were active tended to be in pretty good shape for a long time.  I have grandparents and great-grandparents who lived to a ripe old age, and were pretty independent for most of it.

That said, for people who don't have kids -- or whose kids didn't help take care of them, which also happens -- they had a spouse or niece/nephew or younger sibling or cousin or something help out, or someone from their church or neighborhood.  Some moved themselves into retirement communities or assisted living early (for the convenience and companionship).  [/quote]

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