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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What does your mother want??? Her life, her choice.   Plus, if she currently has friends,  doctors,  familiar stores, activities nearby, it can be damaging to move away from that.[/quote]

At some point, ‘her life her choice’ becomes infeasible. My parents are living with ‘their lives their choice’ but my father can’t get out of bed without my mother’s help and my mother can now barely help and they fight all the time. My father is mentally addled due to a stroke and does nothing but watch TV and refuses to even get his own food from the fridge, even though he can get out of the lift chair and walk better than my mother. My mother needs a walker and everything is very very hard for her, and she is miserable now due to my father’s demands. Both are getting quite incontinent. I’ve offered them THREE free places to move to, two closer, one in their location, which would free up money to hire help. My mother wants to, my father screams NO and she listens to him as in her mind, he’s still ‘the boss’. At this point, as much as I love my father, it would be better if he passes so she can live the rest of her life like she really wants to.[/quote]

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