Comments on: Who Will Care for Your Parents? http://retirementreform-blog.com/who-will-care-for-your-parents/ Social Security, Retirement Planning | NCPA Fri, 27 Aug 2010 16:18:36 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Donna http://retirementreform-blog.com/who-will-care-for-your-parents/comment-page-1/#comment-415 Donna Fri, 08 Jan 2010 16:18:25 +0000 http://retirementreform-blog.com/?p=177#comment-415 Not only will we should be concerned who will be providing the manual care, once healthcare reform is in place, we are going to have our government telling us if we qualify for care. If we are too old we don't qualify. We can just take our pill and wait to die. Not only will we should be concerned who will be providing the manual care, once healthcare reform is in place, we are going to have our government telling us if we qualify for care. If we are too old we don’t qualify. We can just take our pill and wait to die.

]]> By: Carol http://retirementreform-blog.com/who-will-care-for-your-parents/comment-page-1/#comment-413 Carol Sat, 26 Dec 2009 03:08:51 +0000 http://retirementreform-blog.com/?p=177#comment-413 I have something to say about the government providing care for the elderly. What type of medical service is out there for the elderly if the government is providing the care, who mandates the supervision on these homes that provides these services? If the government isn't responsible and our children are to take the responsiblity, then how is this funded to our children to take care of us old folks? My daughter is much small person than I am. She can't lift me up to put me on the throne to take care of business, or to give me a shower and change my bedding for me all in one spot of time. It took two men to lift my grandmother to just put her into a wheel chair to go to breakfast. Nurses would leave her laying in her waste for hours at a time and leave rashes on her. These people are not watched over like people think they are. Who's going to take care of us all in our old age. How bad is it going to be when our children are going to get old. Are they just going to give us a pill to put us to permenant sleep and say that we are not productive citizens and say bye bye. Treating us worse than an animal. I have something to say about the government providing care for the elderly. What type of medical service is out there for the elderly if the government is providing the care, who mandates the supervision on these homes that provides these services? If the government isn’t responsible and our children are to take the responsiblity, then how is this funded to our children to take care of us old folks? My daughter is much small person than I am. She can’t lift me up to put me on the throne to take care of business, or to give me a shower and change my bedding for me all in one spot of time. It took two men to lift my grandmother to just put her into a wheel chair to go to breakfast. Nurses would leave her laying in her waste for hours at a time and leave rashes on her. These people are not watched over like people think they are. Who’s going to take care of us all in our old age. How bad is it going to be when our children are going to get old. Are they just going to give us a pill to put us to permenant sleep and say that we are not productive citizens and say bye bye. Treating us worse than an animal.

]]> By: charlie http://retirementreform-blog.com/who-will-care-for-your-parents/comment-page-1/#comment-379 charlie Fri, 06 Nov 2009 20:38:43 +0000 http://retirementreform-blog.com/?p=177#comment-379 Interesting, I definitely agree that this is a problem, but it seems that the real solution is personal responsibility. Passing on the responsibility of care to the next generation through filial responsibility or the Ponzi scheme of health care are both bad. No matter what the answer is, it is obvious that it shouldn't be the government's responsibility. Interesting, I definitely agree that this is a problem, but it seems that the real solution is personal responsibility. Passing on the responsibility of care to the next generation through filial responsibility or the Ponzi scheme of health care are both bad.

No matter what the answer is, it is obvious that it shouldn’t be the government’s responsibility.

]]> By: Brian W. http://retirementreform-blog.com/who-will-care-for-your-parents/comment-page-1/#comment-334 Brian W. Tue, 20 Oct 2009 18:52:10 +0000 http://retirementreform-blog.com/?p=177#comment-334 I have the sinking feeling that government not only wants to take the primary role in caring for aging parents and grandparents (a task formerly left to families, as you point out in your post), they also want to become the primary caregiver for our children. I have the sinking feeling that government not only wants to take the primary role in caring for aging parents and grandparents (a task formerly left to families, as you point out in your post), they also want to become the primary caregiver for our children.

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