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Originally Posted by nohmi2
I prefer your country's way of handling older folk.
There's an old saying "A mother can look after five children; five children
cannot look after one mother."
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yeah, that's sad. we're four siblings; i don't think anyone of us would feel good if we sent our parents to nursing homes. i guess in a way it would seem demeaning to them? i mean, my parents are as sharp as ever even at their age now, and even if they aren't, i think that between the 4 of us, we would work something out. we have to, or else we'd really feel as if we failed as children. i guess that's how we were raised; both my parents and their siblings took care of their own parents until the end, and both sets of my grandmothers died at home. it's not easy to take care of elderly folk; even my parents admitted that, but they would never trust someone else to take care of their own parents.