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When practical care needs conflict with cultural expectations

I want to move my mother into a nursing home because I cannot care for her properly but everyone in my community will judge me as abandoning her.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Modern care solutions are being rejected in favor of traditional forms that may no longer serve.

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