Toggle navigation
Toggle navigation
Home
DCUM Forums
Nanny Forums
Events
About DCUM
Advertising
Search
Recent Topics
Hottest Topics
FAQs and Guidelines
Privacy Policy
Your current identity is: Anonymous
Login
Preview
Subject:
Forum Index
»
Eldercare
Reply to "Bog People and Elder Care"
Subject:
Emoticons
More smilies
Text Color:
Default
Dark Red
Red
Orange
Brown
Yellow
Green
Olive
Cyan
Blue
Dark Blue
Violet
White
Black
Font:
Very Small
Small
Normal
Big
Giant
Close Marks
[quote=Anonymous]The Longitudinal Study of Generations out of California which tracked boomers, their parents and grandparents showed that boomers are the first group that cared for elderly parents and grandparents en masse. It's a myth that generations before did all that. In the early 1900s they would toss you in the madhouse if you had Alzheimer's. If you were a farm wife with lots of kids and field hands to cook for the good doctor would give the incapacitated aged relative a nice dose of morphine to speed them on their way. My own elderly neighbours had two living mothers and I never knew they had any relatives as they basically were in some care home not anywhere near where their kids lived. But when my neighbour developed Alzheimer's she expected her daughter living in another country, to move in her house and tend to her - something she never did for her parents. [/quote]
Options
Disable HTML in this message
Disable BB Code in this message
Disable smilies in this message
Review message
Search
Recent Topics
Hottest Topics
