[Haunted]

I don't mean to be a bitch, but, this thread...

I understand, but at the same time I am completely baffled by the lack of compassion. No, you should not allow people to take advantage of you. However, old people get really lonely, confused, and if they don't have any other person to turn to, then they're going to latch on to a person. So, the solution is to find other people to help.

My mum and I took care of my gran during the last two years of her life when her alzheimer's was really bad. We bathed her, gave her the meds she needed. One time, I hurt my back (me, a strong 28 yr old woman and her a small 84 yr old woman) getting her out of bed. She would call me a slut. She didn't know where she was. It was incredibly hard.

When she went into the nursing home I met all of these old people who's families never visited them. They were so sad... Very sweet people just left there to die.

The world is getting shittier and shittier for older people. Every generation's outlook is getting bleaker economically, health care sucks, insurance sucks, so on and so forth.

Just bare that in mind, because you're either going to grow and die or die soon.