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Elder-caregivers

PoindexterOglethorpe

(26,842 posts)

3. Glad you've done this for him.

Reply to MissMillie (Original post)

Wed Jan 10, 2024, 01:40 PM

Jan 2024

Too many elderly people insist on staying in their home long after they are no longer capable of living on their own. Starting three years ago, it took my sister and me two years to get our brother and his wife out of their home of some 45 years, into assisted living. It's why I fully intend to move myself into independent/assisted living in the foreseeable future. I'm 75 now, and I'm ready to give up the constraints of home ownership. I'm waiting for My Son The Astronomer to finish his PhD, and depending on where he finds a job, I might well re-locate across the country to be closer to him.