Yes, but we also have a huge population of older orphan formerly free female caregivers who do not have the same level of care and advocacy they gave to others...orphan elder female former caregivers die fast in ursing homes for lack of visitors and advocates...We counted on "if I help you then you will help me when I need it....." It works less and less. We didn't start chosen family faster enough because we thought the families we were caring for would help us as needed later. Many of us were born too soon and stayed too poor for all these vast choices we are al sopposed to have now....We either lived too long or we were born too late...
On Jan 4, 2020 Rus Cooper-Dowda wrote:
Yes, but we also have a huge population of older orphan formerly free female caregivers who do not have the same level of care and advocacy they gave to others...orphan elder female former caregivers die fast in ursing homes for lack of visitors and advocates...We counted on "if I help you then you will help me when I need it....." It works less and less. We didn't start chosen family faster enough because we thought the families we were caring for would help us as needed later. Many of us were born too soon and stayed too poor for all these vast choices we are al sopposed to have now....We either lived too long or we were born too late...