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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]PP, you know your mom best. Some people, though, do fine with meeting new people, at age 70, 80 or 90. They may complain about the new environment. Mostly because it's all they have to talk about and oddly it's how they bond with others.[/quote]

Yes I could see commissserating as a bonding experience!  The issue is she hasn't made a new friend in over 25 years (and why would she, she has a few almost life-long friends at home, so I get that).  But she has been saying she wants to join certain clubs at home for over 2 decades, and she has never done it. She has expressed interest in learning an instrument for over 20 years, but has also never done so.  I worry if she can't even find social outlets in the place she has lived her whole life, why would she do it in a brand new place?  I think she would spend all her time alone at home watching tv and trying to do whatever we are doing all the time (and for many reasons, it wouldn't be good for me or my family to be her only social outlets, but I also know we have to do something at some point.  I wish she had moved part-time when we asked her to)[/quote]

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