This is something I keep thinking about.

My wife and I have been together for 20 years. For the majority of that time, we have been taking care of various silent-generation and boomer members of her family who decided that they will just dump themselves on the most compassionate and competent member of the family (my wife) and thats their retirement plan. Right now we are dealing with her mother, and we have made it clear to the rest of her family and my family that after her, we're done, and anyone else can live under a fucking overpass because we would like to be husband and wife, not caretakers.

My wife has become adept at finding care facilities that take medicare and placing people in them. But not everyone has the time/ability to make that happen.

Of course we are not unique in having this issue. What happens when two people are staying in a 1 bedroom apartment that they both must work to afford? They might really want to care for mom and dad but...

And we end up with considerably more homeless boomers.