# Folks Living at Home

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/folks-living-at-home/239457>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [April 11, 2004, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/folks-living-at-home/239457 "2004-04-11T15:20:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\
**Post date:** [April 14, 2004, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/folks-living-at-home/239457/21 "2004-04-14T16:27:23Z")

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> [@Lobelia Overhill](#):
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> Wow, so what do they do with all the old people in America?
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> I’m not allowed to work, unless you class 10 hours per week as work. I’ve been refused housing, and I can’t afford to move out. I’ve been refused a grant to make alterations to this house (so that I can have my own “apartment”), so it’s not like it’s a bed of roses 🙂

I realize that 139 Euros per week isn’t a huge income either. The American government, through Medicare, does provide some at-home assistance for the elderly, but I never heard of a situation in which a son or daughter came to be in the position of rendering that assistance, and received a government stipend for that.

In any event, it’s pretty much up to the families here, though with a less oppressive tax structure, I’m sure it’s easier here to hire outside help than it would be over there.

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