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Re: Memory Care, Early Retirement, or Keep Pushing On?
Bill, in addition to the factors you mentioned I also realized that quitting to take on caregiving full-time would leave me at the end with no spouse, no recent work experience, and no current indust…7 -
Re: Memory Care, Early Retirement, or Keep Pushing On?
I suggest memory care and keep working. If you take early retirement, there’s still no guarantee that you won’t have to eventually put her in MC or a SNH anyway. You’ll be in even less great financia…7 -
Re: Memory Care, Early Retirement, or Keep Pushing On?
Bill I wish there were an easy or obvious answer for you. To be honest, your posts in the past have sometimes filled me with dread and anxiety because they have such a desperate tone, and many times …10 -
Re: A Little Introspection
How I can relate to what you are saying. I've always been the strong one, capable, manage it all. I do that every day but nights are so tough. My only alone time and my mind thinks of all the plans w…5 -
Re: Reached out to my state rep
Thanks for the motivation to contact our reps. I find it shocking that those of us who have worked and paid into this system all of our lives are faced with such bleak prospects all because our spous…7 -
Memory Care, Early Retirement, or Keep Pushing On?
Hi Friends, it's been a while. For all the exhausted caregivers out there who are also still working to put food on the table, how many times a month (or a day) do you wrestle with this multiple-choi…13 -
Reached out to my state rep
I am tired of everyone (doctors, lawyers, care givers, MC administration, etc) that I speak to telling me the system is broke, the system is going to implode, that there is nothing more I can do, and…8 -
Re: Reached out to my state rep
Second that for any who are still young enough to do it: best advice I was ever given was to buy long-term care insurance while i was in my forties and still healthy. The annual premium is about $330…8 -
Re: Reached out to my state rep
Reality: One needs to be very poor or very wealthy to manage this disease.9 -
Re: My DH went to MC today
Thanks so much for all the support. I am reveling in the "simple things" like being able to sleep without my keys under my pillow! It seems his anger has re-emerged, but it doesn't seem to …8
Commonly Used Abbreviations
DH = Dear Husband
DW= Dear Wife, Darling Wife
LO = Loved One
ES = Early Stage
EO = Early Onset
FTD = Frontotemporal Dementia
VD = Vascular Dementia
MC = Memory Care
AL = Assisted Living
POA = Power of Attorney
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