You're at the point where your aging parents need a nursing home or you. You decide not to move them into a nursing home and they come to live with you.
What are some of the hot issues?
Francesco Donlan has an article When Parents Need Parenting that deals with some of the top problems such as

Driving mishaps and talking about taking the car away
Aging parents still thinking of you as the child even if you are in your 50's
Denial of need
Denise Butrick sums it up best about a conversation she had with her parents … "We always teased that you better be good to us because we pick the nursing home. And now we've become the nursing home."
For more information go to When Parents Need Parenting

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