Several Misconceptions Exist with Regard to the Relationships Between Older

Multiple Choice

Several misconceptions exist with regard to the relationships between older people and their families, particularly their children. One misconception is

A) the provision of help among parents and children is related to age and life course
B) help and assistance go both ways between older parents and adult children
C) that children abandon their parents and dump them into nursing homes
D) the decision to institutionalize a parent is done with reluctance
E) for the most part, older people are in fairly good health and most of the joint years lived by adult children and their parents are ones in which little caregiving is needed