My parents are 57 and 63. My mother is erratic, forgetful, and when she gets mad she sometimes screams and throws things. My father is slowly going deaf, getting slower and more stubborn and forgetful as well. They can be infuriating sometimes, but I know that they’re aging and I can’t be mad at them. How do I deal with this, especially early on in preparation for further down the road?

  • @PunnyName
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    121 year ago

    Or, instead of the progeny taking care of parents, professionals could.

    • @RightHandOfIkaros
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      Yeah, if they can afford it. Personally, I feel that not taking care of your parents is disrespectful if you have the money and capacity to do so, but there is nothing wrong with paying professionals. But that is pretty expensive in my area. I feel the same way with parents who are entirely absent from their childs lives, keeping them in a daycare or under a nanny or even home alone at all times.

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        Well you’re either too busy to take care of your parents because you have to make the money to look after them and so you pay for a professional

        Or your too busy to take care of your parents because you have to work to make money in order to barely keep a roof over your head and still can’t afford to help them.

        Pick one.

    • @[email protected]
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      I’d rather a mix of both. Most affordable homes suck (my mom’s getting there so I’ve been doing some precursory looking), so I’d rather have my mom living with my wife and I and having a nurse (nanny if you will) do the routine functions when that time comes.

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            • @Smoogs
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              So would the people you are calling evil.

              • @ABCDE
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                31 year ago

                No they don’t.

                • @Smoogs
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                  11 year ago

                  But the people who they are complaining about totally are and have no explicit experience or same feelings or same entitlement to the same respect you demand. Nooo…you’re totally not entitled if you act the same way as the people you hate.

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          Your parents also didn’t ask to exist. No one did.

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            • @Smoogs
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              And nothin anyone here can do for you. So you can get over it or get old and miserly die with a heart attack angry about it. Your call.

      • @[email protected]
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        My wife was horrified to learn that we put our parents in a home when they get old. She’s from Colombia and such a thing would be unthinkable.

        Having said that I would never want my children to look after me. It’s not fair on them… they have their own lives to lead.

        • @Smoogs
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          probably because where she lived probably doesn’t have the same housing/living wage/ economy crisis where you’re expected to work 14 hours of the day just to struggle to put a roof over your head let alone have absolutely no time to look after someone who is incapable and failing cognitively

      • @Smoogs
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        Probably because of housing costs not driving up the need to work for 14 hrs a day in which no, you cannot look after an elderly person who is struggling. That is a full time job. You can’t expect a person already working two full time jobs to also fail at that.