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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My dad has mm of $$ and still ended up blowing through all his savings because he lived so long. It costs $200k a year to live at that age independently in a tristate area. And that’s if nothing goes wrong. This is an impossible situation for the elderly of this country. And their children![/quote]

People shouldn't live this long.   We need to stop allowing extreme life saving measures after a certain age.[/quote]

Sometimes people live past 90 with no life saving anything. Btdt with my dh's grandparents. It is very tough bc the person is extremely diminished in abilities, needs a ton of help, but none of the help is medical.[/quote]

That's incredibly rare.  
No medications at all?
No doctor's visits, ever?[/quote]

Medication (I don't consider that extreme life saving measures...) No doctor visits aside from med renewals.[/quote]

There are folks that age who are in relatively good physical health (for the age) but have impaired or faulty cognition. Our mom was ambulatory, able to shower (but had fear of falling), etc. She was able to put together small meals, etc. But she had challenges with recall, could be baffled by questions/expectations/anything falling outside her routine. [/quote]

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