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Elder-caregivers

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NQAS

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4. Thanks all
Wed Nov 3, 2021, 04:11 PM
Nov 2021

We're taking it one step at a time.

Step one. Hospital. So far, so good.

Step two. Rehab. Being lined up.

Step three. Nursing home/assisted living. The biggest challenge. Mainly because sibling and I don't agree on one basic decision. Where? She tells me mom can't travel - too frail - and so can't go to where sibling lives, and by extension, to where I live, slightly further away. IMO, anyone can travel. Wheelchair, relatively short trip with no layovers.

Points taken about the social services people at these facilities. I may not know what's possible, but they do. I'm going to start asking.

No less stressful, though, even with something resembling a game plan.

I think my end of life plan is to die unexpectedly from, well, from anything, but definitely before these same decisions have to be made by my children. Admittedly, maybe not the best plan. My Plan B involves an ice floe.

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