Let me add the most practical, every one should have nothing to think about the problem-how to persuade your parents to go to the nursing home?
Don't think it has nothing to do with you! With the current accepted rate of dependency forecasting, the odds of this brutal decision falling on your head are quite high, and the day will come much faster than you think.
With the old man's extended lifespan. A pair of only couples if 2 children, in less than 10 years, will face the income of 2 people to raise 8-10 people situation. Look at your pay bar, do you think it's good to feed yourself? The traditional endowment model is not realistic in economy first.
Besides the cost of money, time is the most valuable resource for our generation. If your family experiences the death of an elderly person, you will know how much effort and time you need to spend on your children from a very ill to a ringer, if a person with a long bed is a disaster for their children. The last generation has brothers and sisters to share these costs, to our generation? If four old people take turns sick, do you have invincible or can you move in an instant? This is not a question of will, but it is simply not operable at all.
To make matters worse, our generation has seen a large number of cases where the location of the child is separated from the parent's location, leading to a rise in the severity of the problems I have enumerated above. If you and your partner are living and working away from your parents ' third life. I bet your parents will be in a retirement home in a big probability.
Don't think the three words "please nurse" can solve your imaginary problem, with the predictable size of the elderly explosion and the rate of decline in the labor force, 10 years after the wages of the nurse may be a few times the size of your farmers. Moreover, dangerous and offensive physical labor, in developed societies are natural high salaries, such as Australia's miners annual salary is 160,000 dollars. I think this is also very good understanding, to replace the bitter business, no point premium who would like to serve a group of excrement and urine all over, the mouth water droplets in the bowl of the elderly? Will you?
So the question is, are you sure you've got a nurse in more than 10 years? Zaguomaitie, does your wife agree?
You can't afford it, and nobody else can afford it. So the final plan is left to the nursing home. In a sense, the essence of a nursing home is a place where everyone whip to save money by sharing a nurse. Your parents may be very repulsive now, you can not see what is necessary, but as the year goes by, their aging will one day encounter a turning point, may be a fall, may be invisible, may be not stand up, perhaps the wife went. This day will give you a new look at the need for nursing homes.
Therefore, it is no use to pull those philosophical questions, which is the most pressing reality of your current predicament. No matter how to ponder, since our generation of the future quality of life is doomed to a sharp decline is inevitable, what to do to make you and your other half of the pain minimized? Make arrangements for your parents and parents to spend the last 10 years of their lives with dignity.
No matter how to think more, how can you subtly and gently reduce the parents of emotional attendant expectations? These are the right things, one of the most important themes of our generation over the next 10 years, at least as important as the one you're looking for. If you don't think about the old-age problem, with today's divorce rate, your marriage in this super Pit is also a big probability event.
Also, don't expect the state to immediately abandon all illusions about the pension system, which will soon be put to the help. If I am not mistaken, the traditional filial piety culture is about to be vigorously revived and held to an unprecedented status, and a further look, the issue of legalizing euthanasia will gradually be openly discussed and accepted by the public, because the state can not afford it.