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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My parents are in their early 70’s, quite wealthy and still very healthy. But, I can see that they are slowing down and not willing to take trips to places that require them to hike mountain trails. My dad hates cobblestone sidewalks and streets! There is no doubt that they want to provide a good safety net for their children and now small army of grandchildren. They are very generous with charities and that’s where what ever is left will go via a donor advised fund that my siblings and I will manage when they are gone. I think they are doing exactly what they want to do and that all of the experiences in the world can’t match what they are doing now. My dad has two car seats in the back of his car and he loves when they are in use. [/quote]

I will say this:  YMMV.  In my family on both sides of parents, grandparents, great grandparents and extended cousins -- death tends to come in the 90s.  Some in their 80s.  The mindset is different.  They all see 70s as a prime decade.  Most do not slow in a major way until mid-80s and then it comes.  Everything people are saying.  Some of the pulling back is on the people.  If your mindset was you are not supposed to pull back, you don't unless you have to.  My parents when on a family trip to the old country at 80.  Same type of trip as the decade before and the decade before that.  I saw no real slowing.  Fast forward just a couple of years and they could not do that trip.  So I see what people are saying.  But 70 is still young for most people.[/quote]

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