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[quote=Anonymous]I don’t actually think most of these happy ending, people cope or have money saved situations are representative of what replay happens.

If you don’t have family who can care for you when you are elderly, you will either continue to live alone And make poor decisions or you will eventually get reported by someone and go into a nursing home paid for by Medicaid.

I have a sibling who has a disability (intellectual and physical) who lives with my parents and will eventually live with me. We have talked about putting her in a nursing home/ assisted living facility and my parents won’t because the level of care is poor in the ones that accept Medicaid and my parents don’t have the funds to pay for a nice one in the DC area. Even in the nice ones, the problem with placing someone with a cognition issue is that they don’t have the ability to report abuse to you, so you are still blindly trusting the facility. I have young kids and we would never blindly trust a preschool or daycare or nanny with their care for hours or days, so it’s very hard to feel good about it for vulnerable adults.

FWIW, my sibling has spent several months living at nursing homes when the sibling had a medical issue and couldn’t be cared for at home. My parents would visit her every day and I went 2X per week. There are lots of residents and very few visitors. [/quote]

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