who do these boomers think is bringing them their treatos and wiping their asses as in home health aides?
other boomers?
no, their retirements and savings are going to be raided by for-profit elder care schemes and scams their children can't protect them from, because their own position is too precarious to chase after mom buying trump bucks or getting sucked into some kind of crooked conservatorship.
helping your children is literally helping yourself and maintaining a trusting relationship with your only advocate in this psycho country of grifters.
American elder care is terrifying. It's basically those old "the savages send their elderly off into the woods to be eaten by wolves" tropes, but real and the wolf is some finance capitalist running a elder care graveyard where they kill your parents and grandparents for profit.
One thing that stuck out to me as absolutely plausible in Tender is the Flesh was that one of the main reasons the protagonist kept his dad in an expensive home was so that when he died there would be a guaranteed cremation that he would personally witness, instead of his father's corpse being sold as cheap meat
who do these boomers think is bringing them their treatos and wiping their asses as in home health aides?
other boomers?
no, their retirements and savings are going to be raided by for-profit elder care schemes and scams their children can't protect them from, because their own position is too precarious to chase after mom buying trump bucks or getting sucked into some kind of crooked conservatorship.
helping your children is literally helping yourself and maintaining a trusting relationship with your only advocate in this psycho country of grifters.
American elder care is terrifying. It's basically those old "the savages send their elderly off into the woods to be eaten by wolves" tropes, but real and the wolf is some finance capitalist running a elder care graveyard where they kill your parents and grandparents for profit.
One thing that stuck out to me as absolutely plausible in Tender is the Flesh was that one of the main reasons the protagonist kept his dad in an expensive home was so that when he died there would be a guaranteed cremation that he would personally witness, instead of his father's corpse being sold as cheap meat