The generational home depended on an enormous amount of unpaid labor. Elder abuse was common (much I believe, simply due to exhaustion from the sheer level of

The generational home depended on an enormous amount of unpaid labor. Elder abuse was common (much I believe, simply due to exhaustion from the sheer level of demands placed on the caregivers). I hope for significant automation (robots) in future so he family members can spend there time on the good stuff: actually being with the parent. When my mother in law died (at 60, cancer) she died in the same room she’d been born in. The German social services (e.g. Diakonie) provided enough support that her daughters had minimal bedpan-changing and maximal social interactions with their mum, at least until she was too far gone. There is. I thing like that with the inhumane system in the USA.