Peggy Flynn (author of The Caregiving Zone) tells us how to update the aging process and make home a creative stage set for the last part of life.
Aging at Home: Then and Now
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Thanks for pulling this subject up, Valerie.
Having elderly parents is one thing, but when they live in another state or country where both culture and services are different, assisting them long distance is no preparation for growing old in a different country. So listening in here was great.
When I thought my mother shouldn’t drive, I took her keys and said that all she had to do to get them back was to get a driving instructor to say she was OK for the road. If she didn’t have enough wherewithal to do that, she probably shouldn’t drive, either. She never drove again, but that was “her own decision.”