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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes. I didn't ask to be born, but they didn't ask to get old. When they get old, they are my responsibility, just like I was theirs.[/quote] This.  People used to take care of their elderly famliy members. This is how I grew up in the Midwest.  I think, as a society, we have lost something vital when we see our elderly as disposable and a hinderance to our lifestyle.[/quote]

Have you tried to take care of a dementia or very ill person?  Its far easier said than done.[/quote]

+1.  People used to not live so long.  Unless you know what it is to provide long-term care to someone with dementia, do not judge.  Pick the dried crap out of your MIL's butt pubes and see how you feel about nursing homes then.[/quote]

My grandmother lived with us when she got dementia and it was awful on everyone.  She became a huge danger to herself and everyone else (leaving oven on, walking out of th house and wandering around, screaming at us that we were trying to kill her, pooping all over the house, etc.). It was so emotionally draining on us kids and my parents marriage.  But my parents couldn't afford a nice nursing home and were afraid of the ones she could get into.  I admired my parents very much to do everything they could to take care of her.  But unless you've actually lived with someone like this as a caregiver, you have no clue, none, how awful it can be.[/quote]

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