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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]When I was growing up, most people in our neighborhood lived in multi-generational households. Typically a grandchild shared a bedroom with the frail elderly relative. [/quote]

Where did you grow up?  I can say that I have never once heard of anything like this. Ever. You seriously think that children should be responsible for helping their elderly parents get up off the floor when they fall down and that children should be helping their elderly grandparents to the bathroom at night?  Yikes.[/quote]

Much of the world takes care of the elderly in their home by family.  It is only in the western world, particularly in the US where putting seniors in nursing homes
away from their families and younger generations is common.[/quote]

In the test of the world they don't try to prolong life no matter what. They stop aggressively treating elderly people when their quality of life declines. Only in the US do doctors and hospitals insist on doing every treatment and giving every medication to prolong life instead of making elderly people comfortable. For example, in the developing world in winter or rainy season mainy elderly who are bed-ridden die of pneumonia. If they have dementia no one is rushing out to get the elderly person x-rays, the top of the line antibiotics, etc.  [/quote]

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