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In reply to the discussion: Older Americans cope with shock and stress as vaccine effort overlooks them [View all]treestar
(82,383 posts)not blaming her, just wondering. My parents in their 80s have 3 children in 50s, 60s. My sister is a barracuda, making sure everything is taken care of - she scheduled their vaccines and she and I took them. She's on top of their medications and always planning something to help them. I do the shopping, cook, take them where they need to go - not a lot now with the pandemic. I guess we are just lucky.
They have a nearby granddaughter and son in law who help with lawn, computer issues - they use the computer, but as most older people, can get stuck and be unable to solve the issues, whereas younger minds seem to adapt much more easily to the tech stuff.
I guess she may have them with jobs in distant places, or not have kids, siblings, or people nearby. Nobody but social workers, seems depressing.