Because mastodon is like a 99% male audience, I will say this: if you have an aging mother you are in relationship with and care about, do NOT make her go through medical stuff alone. I am skilled & mean enough to fight through medical stuff and even so you would not believe how bad it is. Just accept that you cannot imagine.
I talk to a lot of people's aging moms and they are abandoned & alone even in nice families. I don't care how awkward it is, you have to try to ask them about it.
Describing the situation in one particular country in a toot in international Fediverse without ever mentioning which country's situation that toot refers to: In my experience, that's mostly done by toot authors from the USA. Here, too?
I briefly tried to determine country of origin from the various resources linked from @grimalkina 's profile, but failed. (No impressum, so she's highly unlikely to be a European author.)
Fathers, too. Which is what I tested.
Mothers probably even worse, I have no reason not to believe.
Cat Hicks
Andreas, DJ3EI, he/him
Hendi