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[quote=Anonymous]I've talked to my parents frequently about this, since all their children have moved to the opposite coast from them and we're worried about their plans for aging in place at their two-story home.  The reasons they don't want to move are:
1. Emotionally, cannot bear to sell the house where kids were raised.
2. Overwhelmed by amount of stuff in their house.
3. In denial about the difficulty of moving after one of them dies or has a health crisis. 
4. In denial about how they will continue to live in the suburbs once they can't drive.

They are in their mid-70s and have declined a lot in the last 1-2 years.  I have grandparents in their early 90s still living in [i]their [/i]own home, and my parents will often remark on how bad that choice is for my grandparents (very isolated, they shouldn't drive but do, etc.) but think they are / will be different somehow.  Meanwhile my in-laws moved into a 55+ community where they have a lovely single-floor accessible house and an array of social activities, can walk to grocery, are near their adult kids, etc.[/quote]

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