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How to support aging parents who won't leave unsafe homes

My dad is insisting on staying in the house where my mom died even though he can barely manage the stairs, and I don't know if I'm helping him or enabling him.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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You're caught between respecting his autonomy and your fear that his attachment to place might literally kill him.

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