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December 31, 2007
Assisted vs Independent living
For the past 2 yrs, I've been the primary caregiver for my parents. My mom suffers from short term memory loss and my dad is getting older! My dad was recently in Md based Shady Grove Hospital with an outer ear infection that turned to dehydration. All around bad stuff.
I'm currently trying to get my dad well enough to move. The plan is to move him and my mom into an assisted living facility. There has been much dissention in the family and between my folks themselves on assisted living. I've come to learn about some of the misconceptions surrounding indie and assisted living. Some days, I'm ready to move in there myself! Now, the trick is to get them down there.
Getting them ready has become a full-time job. I'm trying to get them moved out of a house that they stayed in to long, deal with drs, legal issues and a thousand other things. The biggest challenge is working around my parents while at the same time watching them get older. You can almost double your time when working with the elderly. This leaves lots of time for memories.
Off to deal with the ongoing battle between one parent that wants to go to assisted living and the other one that doesn't.
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