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no_hypocrisy

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6. This sounds really cynical, but the primary reason I don't want to end up in a nursing home is

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Sat Dec 22, 2018, 09:23 PM

Dec 2018

not loneliness. I don't want to be uber-medicated where I no longer can be independent and aware. I've seen this too many times with people I know are fine when they register on the first day and when I've visited them shortly thereafter, they are in another world.

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About loneliness among seniors [View all] question everything Dec 2018 OP

I noticed the lonely seniors in US soon after arriving at140 Dec 2018 #1

Except that here, as detailed in the story, below, many have never married question everything Dec 2018 #3

In days gone by, many grandparents lived with their children. at140 Dec 2018 #4

Life style has changed question everything Dec 2018 #7

I'm in my early 60s. My college friends and I are starting to talk about going Golden Girls no_hypocrisy Dec 2018 #2

Do it! Lot less lonely than living alone! nt at140 Dec 2018 #5

This sounds really cynical, but the primary reason I don't want to end up in a nursing home is no_hypocrisy Dec 2018 #6