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Sounds like all you grandmother wanted was to spend her final years in familiar surroundings full of memories of her lifetime and not in a cold and sterile place that she knew was simply a stopover on her way to the morgue.[/quote]

Everywhere is simply a stopover on the way to the morgue. The sooner we all realize that the sooner we can start making appropriate plans.[/quote]

My grandmother spent 20 years telling us how much she hated the house but was too "stuck" and fearful to make a change. She had three daughters that wanted to welcome her with open arms into their homes. In the last few years of her life she would have health issues in the middle of the night and would call my aunt who was still working and she would have to run over. It was very stressful for her family. Her living situation was dangerous but we would have had to get her out in a straight jacket. It was a very sad situation. She was legally blind at this point and could not do the stairs or see the stove. I just think that families need to start making plans early. We are left with a lot of sadness with how the last years of her life were spent. Perhaps her "choice" but I think if she could have let go of that house years ago she would have had better quality of life live in  cleaner, safer conditions with her family or in a one level apartment near by. I just have guilt that we did not figure out a plan earlier for her.[/quote]

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