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.)

@dj3ei

I am summarizing over experiences and conversations I've had with European women in these patient communities, Canadian women, AND women in South America and US, so I felt comfortable speaking about this as a shared issue across many systems. I have family in the UK, EU, Canada, US. My main patient chat represents all those regions and 10+ countries.

Don't EVER speak about my labor on women's health in this objectifying, dismissing, asshole reply guy way again.