It wasn't until my late thirties that I realized my parents
aren't going to live forever. Ok, intellectually I knew that one day I would
have to live without them, but it wasn't until recently that I felt the emotion
behind this thought. Reality takes hold when we watch our parent’s age and fall
victim to more diseases then their parents had to face. Times have changed;
they used to comment on how baby boomer children are moving back in with their
parents unable to make it in the real world. Nobody comments on how the
advanced aging process impacts the baby boomer's kids.
Different types of
dementia or physiological disease we assumed only plague people in their
late 80's and early 90's are now present in 60's and 70's. People are living
longer, so they will also be living longer with certain forms of dementia and
other geriatric illnesses. Some of us will watch painfully as we lose our
parents 20 years earlier than expected.
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