“Just shove them in a home” - Why It’s Not That Simple

“Why don’t you just shove them in a home?”

It usually comes from people who mean well, or think they’re being practical. They see the stress etched on my face, they hear the stories about the ambulance callouts, hospital appointments, lifts and trying to work full time and they think the solution is easy:

Outsource it.

Hand the responsibility to someone else. Put my parents in a care home so I can go back to “having a life.”