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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In my culture, children care for their aging parents except for the more serious cases. I am a bit disturbed that so many Americans leave their parents to be cared for by strangers (for decades!) and their children to be raised by strangers too (nannies). Smh.
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I am currently caring for a parent with dementia. I have had to stop several times over the past few years because it was so difficult emotionally - the name-calling and insults. They are much weaker now and very confused. They don’t know where they live. Sometimes they don’t recognize me. They are incontinent, can’t walk and can say very little. The insults stopped but now they keep crying, thinking something happened to their  kid. I keep pointing out that I am their kid and they shrug and say, “I don’t know.”

I really think people shouldn’t judge others for their family’s decisions. Yes, there may be families who selfishly abandon the elderly, but there are also families who do far more than the elderly person deserves, or who cannot provide what the person needs for a multitude of reasons. How does anyone outside a family know what really happened behind closed doors? [/quote]

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