If you had an elderly parent would you let them move in with you,

hell yeah! i'd love to have my parents at home!

they took really good care of me while growing up. i'll never get tired of taking care of them (him actually.. my mom passed away 5 years ago).

no matter how hard he gets, no matter how troublesome he gets, no matter how smelly he gets, how ever worst he can get, i'll be more than happy to take care of him. coz i'm pretty sure both of them did the same when i was kid.

Me and my parents live together now. And no i do not mean I live in their house. We went and brought our house together. And we all pay equal shares into the bills. I have always been close with my parents. And housing prices are just so high anymore. Honestly I love living with them. It's great my son gets to see his grandparents everyday. It's also nice to have the company. And others to help with the cooking, cleaning and the everyday errands.

Filipinos are closed-knit so there are only a few elderlies who are abandoned in care homes. Even in the States, grannies are living with their children. I think it is about time that we should pay back what our parents had done to us when we were small.

If my mother was still alive, I would never ever put her in a home. I have worked in a rest home and a nursing home, and after that I could never put anyone in one of those places.

The people that reside in those homes are often lonely, sad, and have no privacy or dignity left.



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My answer is YES! I would take care of my old parents. My sisters and I took turns to take care of our parents. They stayed with the richest one of us but we took off from work to spend time with them where they were - feeding them, helping them bathe, dressing them up, talking, hugging, kissing them, holding their hands. Our parents have gone on to the next dimension and because we took care of them, we have no bad feelings like regret that we didn't take care of them.

When parents get very old that only means they have very little time left to be with us. So why not take care of them while we can still have them with us? Soon we will be missing them and this can be very painful if we left them to be alone in their last days.

You are doing right and you have a very good husband.

Yes I do let myparents leave with me an as the matter of fact my Mother is with me already since my Father left us but she is still 56 at this time but I let her stayed with me for good because I am also the eldest and the only daughter of the family.....

Here in the Philippines, bringing our elderly parents to home for the aged or leave them living their own is not a practice. We have this close famly ties that we look after our parents when theyre old. My grandmother ( father side ) is living on her own because he wanted to but my father and his siblings disagree and moved her to my aunts place so that someone can look after her and that she also have companion, she can still care of herself too. She's now 91 y/o and my aunt is the one taking care of her, we also visit her from time to time.

My grandmother on my mom's side, is living next door so we can always check on her everyday, she also have her own house hold help..shes not much of a hassle since she can still move around and do things on her own, she still runs her own business and still earnng her own money at the age of 84. Whats important is that we are there to look after her when she needs us anytime.

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I believe its just ok for our old parents to move in to our house. I remember when my grandmother was still alive. She was a very sweet lady. I think she was around 88 years old when she moved to our house. I still remember the fun days we had. And she was just like your dad, she didn't help on some oh her Personal Care needs. It was a really bad loss for us when she passed away just last year at the age of 94. I still miss her sometimes...

What a wonderful husband you have! Its great that you take care of your father. I know how difficult it is, but I think its our responsibility to take care of our parents when they need assistance. I would have loved to do the same for mine, but due to his physical needs, I could not have him in my house. Good luck to all of you, you are doing the right thing.

You go to the head of the Class! You are a very special daughter! I would have loved to have had the chance to look after my father in his dotage. He passed very young (52) This can be a very special time for you, a time to really get to know who he is....the generation gap is minimal now. When we are young, our parents are....really just our parents, some-one that we love, but don't really respect that much, 'cuz they are too old. You have been given the chance to love your father in a different way. May only "rainbows" be in your future. You must be a special person, it seems you have attracted a special husband, too!