Because everyone is falling down the rabbit hole if money and not time. Family takes care of family and it doesn't require money, it requires time. We've been doing it for thousands of years when in absolute poverty. It's far cheaper to spend your free time than pay a skilled staff to do it for you.
I'm just saying, don't be shocked when society stops caring about the elderly when family has stopped caring for family. People look at me like I'm insane for how close I am with my family when it used to be the default expectation...
The problem with the concept of "doing it the way it was always done" is that with modern medicine, our parents and grandparents can live decades past when they would have passed away even a few decades ago.
One of the consequences of advanced medical care is that elder care can becomes a decades-long commitment. Not just Grandpa and Grandma living with you a couple years and then passing away after they can no longer live alone.
I do understand where you are coming from, but I do not agree that letting the elderly relatives live with you for decades is a good idea. A nursing home or elder community lets them live with others of their generation, and you SHOULD go visit them regularly.
Yeah
Welcome to what it's been like dealing with the left for the last 10+ years.
Good, he's been governor for pretty much all my teen years. Can't wait for him to be gone
Fuck the patriarchy, amirite?
Well to be fair. If anyone cared about that people, they wouldn't have been in nursing homes.
Not everyone has the money to quit their job and become a full time caregiver for elderly parents.
Because everyone is falling down the rabbit hole if money and not time. Family takes care of family and it doesn't require money, it requires time. We've been doing it for thousands of years when in absolute poverty. It's far cheaper to spend your free time than pay a skilled staff to do it for you.
I'm just saying, don't be shocked when society stops caring about the elderly when family has stopped caring for family. People look at me like I'm insane for how close I am with my family when it used to be the default expectation...
The problem with the concept of "doing it the way it was always done" is that with modern medicine, our parents and grandparents can live decades past when they would have passed away even a few decades ago.
One of the consequences of advanced medical care is that elder care can becomes a decades-long commitment. Not just Grandpa and Grandma living with you a couple years and then passing away after they can no longer live alone.
I do understand where you are coming from, but I do not agree that letting the elderly relatives live with you for decades is a good idea. A nursing home or elder community lets them live with others of their generation, and you SHOULD go visit them regularly.