Not everone in South Africa, or anywhere else in the world, can afford to go into a "senior residence" when we cannot care for ourselves in our old age. Where do you see yourself when your parent becomes old, frail and in need of care?
Read this article from the Times online and think how you would feel in the same position. Is it your aged parent´s fault? Or is it your fault that you have to care for your parent, or that you perhaps feel as this person in the article does?
http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/families/article2863641.ece
Have you ever put serious thought to this situation? I was luckily spared this agony. Although my brother offered to house our parents in a flat adjoining his house, our parents opted to move into an old aged home, and were lucky to have saved enough to cover this financial "burden".
2007-11-14
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