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Originally Posted by barryem
...It's one thing for younger siblings and children to be there when they're needed, and sometimes they are needed. It's entirely another thing when a competent elderly person becomes the victim of a sibling's or child's power trip...
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I quite agree. Unfortunately it seems to me that there are also those outside of the immediate family who seem to want to take power trips, one does not have to look far to see what negative assumptions some busybodies make regarding the abilities and preferred activities of the elderly (or indeed of the non-elderly too). For example, I really cannot see that it is anyone else's business or needful of concern whether a person of any age, let alone elderly, prefers TV or reading. I would have thought the place for concern would be if the person for some reason was not able to exercise their preference.