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[quote=Anonymous]I don’t have this problem personally, but I do think wealthy Boomers are generally pretty selfish. It’s the whole “I got mine, screw everyone else” attitude that they seem to take to everything.

My grandmother passed away at 92 last year. I didn’t grow up near my grandparents, but my cousins did and she helped a lot with raising them. I do remember her coming down to help take care of my sibling and me in a pinch like when my mom was hospitalized once. She had a saying, “Be nice to your kids; they’ll pick your nursing home one day!”. As it happened she never had to move out of her home because my aunts and cousins lived around the corner and were there all the time helping her. She never developed dementia thankfully. I’m sure these Boomers are living it up right now but things can change quickly when you get old. I do wonder what they will expect from their adult children if/when aging really starts coming for them. It’s not so simple as you just move in to a facility when things start going downhill. There is so much to navigate and most elderly people need someone younger asking the right questions and advocating for them if not providing full on care. [/quote]

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