Comments on: Caregivers Rise To The Challenge

34M Americans Care For Older Relatives, Many Dipping Into Savings To Make Ends Meet

[usayesterday]

EarlyProphet:

Are you going to keep this bull ****** up all the way throughout the primaries?! Months and months of this krappola has got to stop.

Your spam is making me want to take a trip to visit the Ron Paul headquarters and....

[ssm9451]

~USAYesterday~ You''ve hit the nail on it''s head, with your statements. Totally agree. How much more of the BS can hard working, true Americans put up with?

[usayesterday]

Depends on where you live. BTW, rule of thumb is if you have $1.5M of net worth, do not get long term care insurance.

Posted by donbl1 at 09:26 PM : Nov 19, 2007
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Good advice.

And the location, location, location, makes a big difference in the money, money, money, one would spend for their senior living needs!

In the San Francisco Bay Area region, $4,000 a month for a quality assisted living facility is the norm. A 3 hour drive North to the Redding area (above Sacramento) and the monthly cost for a quality facility is around $2,500 to $3,000 a month.

(Just like you said in your post).

[earlyprophet]

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[chad55555]

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[earlyprophet]

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[earlyprophet]

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[donbl1]

Starleo,

It probably depends on where you live.

Where I live, a very nice assisted living facility runs about $4K+/month with a $200K bond returned at death.

In small towns to the north, a very nice assisted living costs $1,800/month with no bond and no contract........ Fortunately, parents do not like to move and they enjoy the small town to the north.

Medicare in the small town is excellent and pays for nearly everything. Here, all doctors do not accept medicare.

Depends on where you live. BTW, rule of thumb is if you have $1.5M of net worth, do not get long term care insurance.

[starleo146]

Posted by imaok1 at 08:52 PM : Nov 19, 2007

I think we are the only country that just treat the elderly like with no respect. What wouldn''t your parents do for you if you needed it. Give the elderly a little respect our government doesn''t.

[feelfree1]

USAyesterday at 08:37 PM,

Nice.

[imaok1]

Oh boo hoo. What percentage of your parent''s income do you think they spend on raising you? I think 10% of your income is a fair price to pay for all that they sacrificed for you. And if you raise your children right, they will do the same for you.

[facts6]

I retired once for 6 years, went sailing in the eastern caribbean. even that got boring, so went back to work.

[usayesterday]

Does anyone think that their absense will be detectable?

Posted by FeelFree1 at 08:27 PM : Nov 19, 2007
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Probably not FeelFree,

But if all the CBSnews.com web designers/managers walked out...

...they''d probably have to hire $2/hour engineers from India to take over.

Oh wait....

...they already have!

[feelfree1]

Unrelated-

"Nearly 300 CBS News writers who belong to the Writers Guild of America have voted to authorize a strike against the network..."

Does anyone think that their absense will be detectable?

[gkc99]

Guess the only solution is not to live too long--but before you end it all, send a Repugniscum on ahead to light the way to hell for you! Guess that could be another solution!

[usayesterday]

Mom, Dad...

...Don''t worry, I know your job at McHardees Junior ''n the Box and TargetMart seem degrading to you at your age (70''ish), but new laws require employers to be more accommodating to senior citizen employees (yeah right).

This may seem morbid, but if you''re lucky, at any given time, a big heart attack will strike you and your pain will only be minimal and last only seconds. You clock in at your remedial, pedestrian job... and you clock out somewhere close to the store''s main entrance. This way, you won''t have to suffer for years either losing your memory or losing the use of your muscles and/or joints.

This is the way I''m looking forward to leaving this earth when I am in my 70s or 80s... while working at a similar remedial job as both of you are doing now. Clearly, a "retirement" is no longer in my future outlook (and basically erased from my vocabulary).

But either way, we will all have to take care of each other till the bitter end, in this 21st century.


Thank you corporate America!..........(you ********)

[usayesterday]

Mom, Dad...

...hopefully, if or when your health begins to suffer, your Medicare (if it still exists) will be a big help in paying for some care taker to help you during the day while I toil away at my job (for however long that lasts).

If Medicare doesn''t come through, I''ll just have to hire an illegal immigrant named "Margarita"... you know... like the rich folk in Hollywood do. She will take care of you during the day while I work.

Dad, if only your (Enron/World Com/etc.) retirement savings and pension still existed. Your lives, in your final years, would have been so much better.


Thank you corporate America!..........(you ********)

[usayesterday]

When the babyboomers begin to get into their 80s and older, their children will mostly not have the financial means to care for their parents and themselves at the same time.

For the Gen X''ers (upper 20''s to upper 30''s), it is hard enough to just keep a roof over OUR heads, food on the table and a working car in the garage.

...oh yeah, and our mortgage bills, gas bill, and healthcare premiums just went up again!


Mom, Dad...

...I''ll sleep on the couch, but I hope you don''t mind sharing the bathroom. My one bedroom condo is all I could afford on my $35,000 salary!

Thank you corporate America!......... (you ********).

[a8151947]

no kidding