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It is the responsibility of each family member to take care of their elderly patients. Then, they can have health care professionals to help out. In this case, you can eat your cake and have it, basically but you, the family member still be in full control.

The elderly patient must have done something good when they were young, taken great care of their children who they would naturally expect to care for them in their old age.

I come from a polygamous household and I have to take care of all my great-grandfather's to grandfather's to great-grandmother's to grandmother's and so on.
I cannot be seen differentiating. We are all the same, we need the same kind of health and wealth.

It is important that elderly family patients are made to see that they have been loved and feeling loved is something so priceless so that there lives even get prolonged even for a few more days, to months, to years.

Family members need to show love to their elderly ones, taking them shopping, taking them strolling even if they have to do that in a wheelchair. Elderly patients should sense that they are not becoming unwanted and that they are wanted and loved very much. It is not too much to want to spend the last moments of an elderly one, with them. Why not set up adequate facilities for them at home, have a 24 hour, 7 days a week care at home, for them.

It is not mandatory however to keep an elderly person at home if you cannot afford to take care of them. Of course, one must avoid endangering the lives of anyone at all so that where necessary, the hospital should be the first place to go to.

Family members should always seek the best interest of their elderly ones as a priority. There is always a need at home, for an elderly one. If you go to work on a daily basis, then, you can alternate with other members of the family to ensure that the elderly ones are not forgotten.

Elderly ones should not be made to feel like leftover's and thus feeling out of place. Sharing pictures with them, a little gossip, a favorite meal is not too much to ask for. Leave nothing to the imagination, where possible. Discuss privately, with them, where they would like to be buried, how they want to, what kind of coffin, what kind of burial, many people do not like to be cremated so would they prefer to be embalmed.

But why should you do that? The reason is for them to know that they are deeply loved and in honesty, the elderly ones have got to know that someone is thinking of them regardless. It is also love on

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