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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You save and make a plan to hire help and a skilled facility if/when needed. EVERYONE should do this.  It is your own responsibility even if you have children.  Your children may want to care for you and move you in with them, but they aren’t obligated.  [/quote]

I guess it just seems like there’s so many other issues that older people need help with even before they are at the point where they need long term care. It’s not like you go from being healthy and having your full mental facilities to not being able to live independently. I’ve seen my parents provide help with their own parent for quite a few years when technically speaking they could make decisions for themselves, but in reality they just weren’t that sharp anymore. [/quote]

[b]You seem to be projecting your fears on the childless / childfree. [/b][/quote]

Not really. I honestly wonder about this. My grandmother would have been dead years ago if it weren’t for my father. She refused to leave her house even though[b] she obviously shouldn’t have been living alone[/b]. My father didn’t have the heart to force her out of her home so he spent years going over to her house a few times a week to care for her. When that finally became too much for him, he finally got the strength to force her to move into a nursing home.  How can anyone say with certainty that they won’t be stubborn and illogical when they are old either?  [/quote]

That’s your opinion. Sounds like she was moved against her will. [/quote]

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