40 11 Impact Issues - Taking Care of Mother elderly senile / senility dementia Altzheimer’s Disease dependent / independent full care facility assisted living retirement community “nursing home” DNR (do not resuscitate) advance directive life support ramp wheelchair get along with to be a burden obligation guilt duty Are your views more like Midori’s or Toshi’s? What living options are available to the elderly? How will your parents / grandparents be cared for? Have you discussed these things with your parents? Obligation? Guilt? How would you like to spend your final years? How has care for the elderly changed in Japan? How is it likely to change in the future? What do you know about how other cultures take care of their aged members?