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In reply to the discussion: Baby boomers may have no one to care for them in old age [View all]matt819
(10,749 posts)24. Then there's this
As much as I joke with my kids about caring for me when the time comes, they have their lives and I have no interest in disrupting them.
My mother is a soon to be nonagenarian and lives on her own, more than 1,000 miles from either of her children. Its what she wants. Im going to try to follow her example and hope that I stay well enough to do so. If not, well, that would suck.
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No, they don't come back, but parents very often move near their children, even if to a
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