Boomer Women Often Disagree With Parents About LTC

Boomer women are much more likely to talk to their parents about the parents’ future living arrangements than they are to work with the parents to make concrete plans.

Researchers at AARP, Washington, say 70% of the 629 boomer women they surveyed have started talking to their parents about the parents’ future living arrangements, but only 40% of the survey participants said they or their parents had begun to plan future living arrangements.

Only about 1% of people ages 50 and older say they want to live in a nursing home if they need extra help, but, in response to another AARP survey, about 20% of boomer women have said that a nursing home is an acceptable housing option for an aging parent, AARP researchers report.