This is heartbreaking. Jane Gross is founder of the New York Times' New Old Age blog. Here she writes movingly of her own inability to follow the advice she'd given others for years--to plan ahead before a crisis. Her friends "all but staged an intervention" and she was left looking for help in the midst of dire need.
Recently major eye surgery left me almost blind, jelly-legged, unable to drive, shop, cook my own meals, do the laundry, shower, safely climb the stairs - all the tasks we take for granted. All the tasks many of the frail elderly cannot do for themselves, that they generally do not want strangers in the house helping them to do.
Read more at: newoldage.blogs.nytimes.com
