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When Mom and Dad Grow Old A) The prospect of talking to increasingly fragile parents about their future can be one of the most difficult challenges adult children will ever face, says Clarissa Green, a Vancouver therapist. People often tell me they dont want to raise sensitive issues with their parents about bringing in caregivers or moving, she says. Theyll say, I dont want to see dad cry. But Green usually responds, Whats wrong with that? Adult children, she says, need to try to join their parents in grieving their decline, acknowledge their living arrangements may no longer work and, if necessary, help them say goodbye to their beloved home. Its sad. And its supposed to be. Its about death itself. B) There are almost four million men and women over age 65 in Canada. Nearly two thirds of them manage to patch together enough support -- from family, friends, private and government services -- to live independently until virtually the day they die, according to Statistics Canada. C) Of the Canadian seniors who live to 85 and over, almost one in three end up being moved -- sometimes kicking -- to group living for the last years of their lives. Even in the best-case scenarios (可能出现的情况), such dislocations can bring sorrow. Often the family feels guilty, and the senior feels abandoned, says Charmaine Spencer, a professor in the gerontology department of Simon Fraser University. Harassed with their own careers and children, adult children may push their parents too fast to make a major transition. D) Val MacDonald, executive director of the B. C. Seniors Services Society, cautions adult children against imposing their views on aging parents. Many baby boomers can be quite patronizing (高人一等的), she says. Like many who work with seniors, MacDonald suggests adult children devote many conversations over a long period of time to collaborating on their parents future, raising feelings, questions and options -- gently, but frankly. However, many middle-aged adults, according to