What will happen if Mom or Dad can t reach the phone after falling or having some other medical emergency? Accidents do happen. In the Fall of 2000, my parents Imogene and Joe moved from their home in Spokane, Washington to live with my family outside of Fort Worth, Texas. My father had a stroke about a year prior, but otherwise both parents were in relatively good health. My father could no longer drive though and wanted a long term living arrangement in place for him and Mom. So we decided that they could live with our family.

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