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• 1 of 28

  by Zina Leone

  Created on: July 31, 2009

  If it was a different day and age, I would be saying elderly patients should definitely be cared for

• 2 of 28

  by Jenny Tolley

  Created on: September 24, 2010

  In our rapidly aging society, more and more people are being faced with the dilemma of taking care of

• 3 of 28

  by Rebecca Adele Scarlett

  Created on: December 27, 2010

  We love our parents. We don't want to think of them in a nursing home, especially with all the horror

• 4 of 28

  by Sherryl Thormann

  Created on: October 17, 2007

  Whether to care for an elderly family member or place them in a professional atmosphere is a very difficult

• 5 of 28

  by Michele Blacksberg

  Created on: May 27, 2009   Last Updated: May 28, 2009

  The care of an aging parent should be performed by the people who will most be able to provide for their

• 6 of 28

  by T. Lynn Wright

  Created on: May 07, 2010

  In those great made-for-television movies, the grandparents lived with the family, or the adult child

• 7 of 28

  by David Ireland

  Created on: June 14, 2008

  Perhaps it might be best to define the term elderly for the purpose of this debate. In the context,

• 8 of 28

  by Ted Sherman

  Created on: July 06, 2007

  Depends (at age 82, I may soon be wearing 'em) on many factors about family relationships, money, health

• 9 of 28

  by Sharon Smith

  Created on: October 09, 2010

  I grew up with the mentality that you cared for your parents, no matter what, when they got older. 

• 10 of 28

  by Catherine-Kay Butler

  Created on: September 15, 2010

  This debate, as to whether elderly patients should be cared for by family or professionals, has long

• 11 of 28

  by Eileen Oconnor

  Created on: March 29, 2008

  As a former nurse,I think that professional care is vital to improve the level of care given to our

• 12 of 28

  by Dyess Calhoun

  Created on: April 02, 2009

  The correct answer may be both. Caring for an elder person or any person with an illness or disability,

• 13 of 28

  by Margaret Shauers

  Created on: October 14, 2007

  I've been on both sides of this issue and I definitely vote for a very-well checked-out nursing home.

  My

• 14 of 28

  by Maureen Totterer

  Created on: July 05, 2007   Last Updated: May 13, 2008

  This is a difficult question with complex problems on both sides. Fifty years ago it was fairly common

• 15 of 28

  by Radu Zurbau

  Created on: February 18, 2010

  It's a very interesting debate weather who should take care of elderly patients/people, but it all depends

• 16 of 28

  by Salina Prether

  Created on: December 18, 2008

  As a health care provider I think this Question is not easily answered. It depends on the elderly patients

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  by Jeff Franklin

  Created on: October 17, 2007

  The care of the elderly by family members is gradually but surely all but destroying the baby-boomer

• 18 of 28

  by Carol Nissenbaum

  Created on: November 12, 2008

  My mother developed Alzheimer's in her early 60s, relatively young to get this disease. My father, in

• 19 of 28

  by Peggy Molloy

  Created on: November 22, 2007   Last Updated: January 02, 2011

  I live with both of my elderly parents and for me it is a positive life choice. I consider it a necessary

• 20 of 28

  by Barbara Kasey Smith

  Created on: April 13, 2009

  Should elderly patients be cared for by family members or by health care professionals? Here of late,