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When Aging Parents Sell Their Medications for Other Needs

I've been paying for Dad's medications for six months and just discovered he's been selling half of them to pay for cigarettes.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The child's care becomes currency in the parent's desperate economy, where survival needs compete with each other in impossible calculations.

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Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Money and aging parents — the financial caregiving challenge?”

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