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[quote=Anonymous]My sense is that a lot of the people here with very strong opinions have not yet been through the weirdness that is “living with an extremely elderly parent.” We had one elderly relative who was basically housebound and ninety but insisted that someone make a reservation, purchase a plane ticket and come to her home in the other side of the country in order to fill her window boxes with geraniums in the spring. No matter that we were all still working full time in our sixties, helping out with grandchildren, still having to be careful with our annual leave, dealing with our own medical issues and doctors appointments and surgeries and medical tests etc etc etc. Many of them do expect their children to serve as some sort of on-call concierge service. The people with the opinions also haven’t had to contend with the gender bias that these old codgers have. I.E. extremely elderly mom can’t under why after she breaks her hip you can’t drop everything and stay with elderly dad for three weeks while she is in rehab since he refuses to do any cooking or laundry or cleaning. It’s not “men’s work”, don’t you know? [/quote]

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