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11 Impact Issues - Taking Care of Mother
elderly
senile / senility
dementia
Altzheimer’s Disease
dependent / independent
full care facility
assisted living
retirement community
“nursing home”
DNR (do not resuscitate)
advance directive
life support
ramp
wheelchair
get along with
to be a burden
obligation
guilt
duty

Are your views more like Midori’s or Toshi’s?
What living options are available to the elderly?
How will your parents / grandparents be cared for?
Have you discussed these things with your parents?
Obligation? Guilt?
How would you like to spend your final years?
How has care for the elderly changed in Japan? How is it likely to change in the future?
What do you know about how other cultures take care of their aged members?