“The Health Care Promises We Cannot Keep,” by Judith Graham, Kaiser Health News

 

 

Quote:

“For family caregivers, this is a common, anxiety-provoking dilemma. They’ll promise Mom or Dad that they can stay at home through the end of their lives and never go to assisted living or a nursing home. Or they’ll commit to taking care of a spouse’s needs and not bringing paid help into the home. Or they’ll vow to pursue every possible medical intervention in a medical crisis. Eventually, though, the unforeseen will arise ― after a devastating stroke or a heart attack, for instance, or a diagnosis of advanced cancer or dementia ― and these promises will be broken.”
LTC Comment (from Stephen A. Moses, President, Center for Long-Term Care Reform):

The perennial problem.