In 2020 (coincidentally right at the start of the pandemic) we moved into a house with an in-law apartment for my parents. We have three kids under 10, and my p

In 2020 (coincidentally right at the start of the pandemic) we moved into a house with an in-law apartment for my parents. We have three kids under 10, and my parents are in their early 60’s and in good health (mom has been a homemaker her whole life and dad is about a year out from retirement), so we’re likely still a couple decades of this arrangement. It was an intentional decision (based on a couple years of conversations) to enable my kids and my parents to spend a lot of time together, and to make it “easy” for us to care for my parents at the end of their lives. I’m well aware that there will be a lot of tough moments. I’ve got a background as a paramedic, and have spent more time in nursing homes than pretty much anyone who isn’t a resident of staff at a facility. I think the most important step we’ve taken so far is to have a lot of open and honest conversations about how we want things to go.