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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]He didn't want any outside help from anyone, even as a younger person[/quote]

For the mentally ill, or just plain stubborn, pain in the @ss people, it doesn't end well. Other reasonable people make plans. And there's Medicaid. Besides hospitals, care facilities are filled with social workers. You have to have some basic trust in the humanity of fellow human beings. People work to find a solution, even if it isn't family.[/quote]

This sums it up. I do know of relatives who had hired people and set up their finances. Sure people visited, but it wasn't our job to manage care. One in particular lived a long and happy life. The sad thing with what PP calls the stubborn pain in a@#!@) people is when they do have kids, whoever takes it on ends up getting quite ill. It is very hard to set boundaries and limits, but it is crucial and highly difficult people will eat their own young to survive. In some of those cases they have kids and slowly for their own survival they drop out. It turns into a matter of whether they do in their kids or their kids just refuse to take another tirade.[/quote]

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