Health and mobility as one gets older

mathmom
Tue, 19 Mar 2024 18:49:24 +0000

My MIL was adament that she stay at home - and she was showing signs of dementia in her early 60s. Her husband wouldn’t let anyone move her. Nobody was ever really clear about it, but we think he had a mini-stroke in his 50s. He was fine, but just not as sharp as someone with his education and job (diplomat) should have been. It turned out home health aids cost about the same as putting the two of them in some kind of nursing care where they would have been separated cost about the same. But it was pretty stressful for years. When my MIL finally passed away (wheelchair bound and unable to talk) we were able to persuade my FIL that he needed to go to assisted living. It was great for him as he was extremely gregarious.