Families tend to skip straight to the biggest step, moving someone in to solve for the worst day while missing almost all the ordinary ones — the wedding, the movie, the appointment that quietly goes unattended instead of arranged for. Start with someone who shows up when asked and disappears when not, and let necessity earn the bigger step later.
We use the word 'old' like it explains something — weak, frail, slowing down. But spend an afternoon with someone in their 70s and you'll notice something we conveniently forget: the discipline it takes to show up for your own life, every single day, for decades. That's not the part that should worry us. Here's what should.
