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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If I were 70 and in good health and my kids were already pressing me about nursing homes I’d be pissed too.

Jesus Christ, OP give it a rest.  Circle back to her in a few years.   [/quote]

+1 my mom is 76 and doing well. My MIL is 86 and doing well too. We haven’t yet had convos with either.

Expecting decline isn’t helpful because you don’t know how it will play out. Wait for a diagnosis or change in circumstance. But, still you can’t ever make a perfect plan. [/quote]

I"m the PP in this thread who advised that OP should have POA. The 'diagnosis or change in circumstance' can happen literally in an instant! I know because it happened to us- the second the phone rang with the call that Mom (who is Dad's caretaker) was in the ambulance was when everything changed. I'm so grateful I had POA (because Mom was incapacitated, my POA for both of them started) because I needed it over the next few months. Once Mom recovered mostly, then she was not capacitated and I am not excersizing POA.

I plan to have a POA when I'm older, so my kids will be able to handle things if something happens in an instant.[/quote]

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