tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2947580832429520795.post6306814955017500078..comments2023-09-27T09:18:09.684-05:00Comments on Our Plain and Simple Life: Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02315996496008524220noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2947580832429520795.post-70706954196264213252009-03-11T13:52:00.000-05:002009-03-11T13:52:00.000-05:00Your comments are loving and well-intentioned. I ...Your comments are loving and well-intentioned. I don't doubt your good intentions. The older parents these days are part of a newer generation, and many of them just don't want to lose their independence. "They" don't want to live with "you." But "they" still expect the "yous" out there to support their same lifestyle. Ask anybody in their fifties and sixties who are dealing with it now. I know there are people in the rest homes who never have family visits. I've been the regular visitor to the rest home. And some, not all, but some of those dear sweet people who shed tears when you leave have given their family fits just trying to do nice for them. Others have family who are too old themselves to take care of them. I know those stories first-hand. Sad, sad, sad. What will really get rough are the people squeezed in between raising their own kids while they have to raise their aging parents at the same time knowing that their own retirement just went in the tank. I have learned first-hand that there is a place for a responsible nursing home, and many aging parents and their families need the care they offer. I have also learned first-hand that some older folks can be some of the most manipulative foxes you'd ever hope to meet, and they can lie through their faces to non-family visitors. Don't believe everything you hear. I've walked through it with too many other families and been burned too many times by our own family members. It's just not easy. There aren't any pat solutions. <BR/>- EmmyAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2947580832429520795.post-58824722986238203302009-03-11T11:30:00.000-05:002009-03-11T11:30:00.000-05:00AMEN ON TAKING CARE OF OUR ELDERLY FAMILY MEMBERS!...AMEN ON TAKING CARE OF OUR ELDERLY FAMILY MEMBERS!!jesnicolehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09507944560076614238noreply@blogger.com