Home or The Home?

When parents  need care — lots and lots of care — families often struggle along, making do, until the burden grows too great and they are faced with an awful dilemma: bring the care to them, or bring them to the care; home or the home. While there is undeniably something attractive about supporting a senior in their own home, it can exact a heavy toll, as writer Carmelina Prete tells us in this look at what that decision has meant for Fran Van Sickle, who is struggling to keep her father Charles Hubert in his home.
"He said he's going to live to be 100," Fran laughs. She pauses. Then her smile falls."If he does, I don't know if I will."
But another option, placing them in a home where they'll get 24 hour a day care, can be emotionally draining, as Paul Wilson demonstrates in "It's not easy to leave home" the story of the day George Martin's family moved him into a nursing home.
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