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https://www.businessinsider.com/aging-at-home-family-caregiving-costs-2026-8

I read the entire article without an account creation. I closed the creation screen twice and it took me to the article.
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And yet government agencies here are constantly pushing the idea Geaton. They try to spin it as something desirable and that the benevolent government is allowing people to continue living as they want, but the amount of funded home care available is never enough. To cover the needs of the vast majority of people it still comes down to family members having to fill the gaps or being wealthy enough to pay for extra services, and cynical me thinks that it's a whole lot cheaper to keep people at home than to fund more nursing home care.
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One cannot read the entire article without creating an account. But the actual headline is, "My grandparents wanted to age at home. Eventually, their care cost $4,000 a week."

And by what I could read it talked about the "great sacrifice" made by their 6 willing adult children to orbit around them, plus the Grandparents' sufficient savings and pension.

Yes, aging-in-place can now only happen in increasingly rare circumstances.

My Mom is 97 with very slowly progressing dementia and memory impairment. She lives in the house next to mine that she bought in 1997 and just happens to be mostly senior-friendly. She saved "enough" as a single Mom to an only child, and I'm now mostly retired and well enough to watch over her daily.

But I have a boundary: if she becomes unsafe in her home or I become overwhelmed by her care, she will be transitioned to a facility that is 3.5 miles from my house (a good one, one where my MIL received excellent care).

Boomers and the upcoming elderly need to be disabused of the notion of aging in place. It's now way too expensive (and exhausting) to pull off.
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