"High-tech sensors help kids keep eye on aging parents "

[richorlin]

"Dad, we found this nice assisted-living facility for you. You're going and that's final or we won't be coming around any more"

Tough-love for parents.

Robert M wrote:
Steve,

Like I said. Good luck with that. My father-in-law refuses _any_ assistance. No cane (and he needs one). No emergency pendant (and he should have one). No GPS locator for his car (and he needs one!), no home health aid (and he desperately needs one!). You name it, he needs it and refuses it. The only reason he uses a walker is because he fell and injured himself several times. Despite that, he still only uses it a little bit of the time.

The "what if you fall or get sick or die" doesn't work when the person who needs the assistance and monitoring has Stubborn Old Man Syndrome (aka SOMS). I'm using the word stubborn because it's the nice way of describing it. Other words come to mind and they are most assuredly not appropriate for use in the forum. And, to take it a step further, he can't understand why my wife and I are frustrated to the extreme when he complains about all of his problems, the vast majority of which could be avoided if he accepted even a teensy bit of help. SOMS. My father-in-law's case of it will probably kill us before it kills him.

Robert