NEW YORK: Many people in their 70s and 80s are moving into retirement communities with their parents and others in their 90s and 100s.
The words “Granny’s coming to live with us” has ignited many a row and enduring domestic feud in families.
By the time she was unpacking her housecoat, girdles, corn plasters and hairnet (whatever happened to hairnets? Every granny wore a hairnet at night after unhooking herself from her stout girdle) in the spruced up spare room everyone had calmed down, on the surface at least.
And there Granny – or Granddad – would stay, false teeth mug by the bed, and part of the family of their middle-aged children and grown-up grandchildren, great grandchildren, even, until their last breath…