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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]People all over the world care for their parents at home. I dont understand this issue and ehy we should be so different. And at some point won't robots do a lot of this care anyway? [/quote]

I don't know which other countries you're talking about but there's a lot of variability. Our middle class relatives and friends in South America care for their aging parents in home but they also have housekeepers who come every day and do all the cooking, cleaning, and laundry. Plus nurses who come to administer medicine and do other tasks that would cost thousands of dollars here. That's unheard of for anyone solidly middle class in this country and even a lot of UMC families. [/quote]

This! We are a  Middle /upper middle class South American family in NOVA. I take care of my mother with dementia. Our families in South America tell us to just use my mother’s nest egg to pay for her care. They have no clue how expensive care is over here. It is very common to see “nurses” pushing the elderly every afternoon in the local parks in their countries. The sons and daughters pretty much can continue with their lives; they work, party and travel without missing a beat. When they come to visit, and they ask to do touristy things, I have to remind them that I am tethered to my house. I can leave, but only for a few hours at a time. [/quote]

We were just in Spain and our hotel was very near a nursing home facility.  I was out shopping at the late afternoon and there were lots and lots of nurses pushing elderly strike or dementia payments in wheelchairs stoning the neighborhood.  My grandparents were immigrants and my family absolutely would have cared for my grandmother with Alzheimer’s in home but it was not possible or safe to do so.  (We did care for my other grandmother in our hkme until her death.). It’s just not particularly feasible to care for dementia patients at hkme.  I have one relative who did it, but she had to buy a new house, install special locks, and hire a rotating shift of 3 nurses.  I don’t believe people in other countries are regularly caring for advanced dementia patients at home — there’s a big difference between that and “grandma forgets who the president is and thinks my daughter is me.”  [/quote]

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