This idea (or the "Cruise ship vs. nursing home" variation) has been around on the internet and e-mail chains for years. But when my mom recently forwarded it to me from a group of her friends, it just set me off. Here's the e-mail ... my commentary follows: No nursing home for us. We'll be checking into a Holiday Inn! Please pardon my over-sensitivity to this old trope. I do realize it's really just a joke (as a "real" LTC planning idea it's truly a JOKE), but I meet far too many people on a daily basis who continue to turn a blind eye toward real, thoughtful, grown-up long-term care planning who take ideas like this as Conventional Wisdom, and they flippantly use it (or the "Cruise Ship vs. Nursing Home" variation) as a convenient way to allow themselves to shrug their shoulders at engaging in a personal, adult conversation about the topic. The real problem with this is two-fold:
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