Bring your parents to work?

[wendy]

What do you think about this idea?
http://www.nextavenue.org/will-we-soon- ... lder-care/

[maureenho]

Stupid idea.

[wendy]

i believe it will happen as our parents are living longer and people cant give up their jobs to care for them.

[maureenho]

I can just imagine if I'd taken my mum and dad to work, no one would get any work done.

[annie]

Not sure that would work

[wendy]

don't you think it would work for the people who already go to day centres?
instead of going and paying them, the elderly would have care at work, like creches for children.

[maureenho]

Problem is not all elderly parents who need care are even well enough to leave the house or their bed for that matter.

[wendy]

yes I agree , well then the carer would have to leave work if they wished to care for them, but many do not want to give up their job in the early stages and some will not give up at all.
It looks to me that it would make things easier to drop mum or dad off at work rather than having to take them somewhere else.
I am not talking about people who need nursing care. Maybe I have got it wrong, but I do believe these places will happen within the work force within the next 50 years.