Living to 120 is becoming an imaginable prospect::undefined

  • bob_wiley@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    My grandma will be turning 103 in less than 3 months. She’ll be out of money by the end of the year. We got really lucky that the place she is staying has a secret fund which they will use to let her stay there. I guess moving someone at her age is really bad for them, and the people there like her, which played to her favor. I’m not sure what we would have done without that fund. It’s about $4k/month to stay there, and the price will only go up.

    • kava@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      My great grandma died at 101 earlier this year. She had ran out of money a while ago, but she had so many descendants at that point that everyone took turns caring for her. One of her daughters lived with her and the other 6~7 children all pitched in.

      She never had to stay at a home. That’s a nice thing about being old as shit, assuming you had at least some children. Your descendants exponentially increase allowing you to draw money from a significant pool of people.

      I flew into the country to visit her for her 100th birthday and there were almost 100 people there, majority family members.