"It takes a matter of minutes for me to walk from my apartment to Dad's because we live on different floors of the same building. He's extremely independent at 88 - our family calls him our "super ager" - but we know that he will rely on us a lot more as time goes by. In 2020, when my 82-year-old mother reached the end of her life due to cancer, I said to her, "Mom, I've got Dad.""
"I've always been close to my dad. He had a demanding job as an executive at AT&T and a professorship at Fordham University, but he made a lot of time for me, my two brothers, and my two sisters. We did everything as a family when we were younger. Dad insisted that you couldn't take five kids to five different places. We'd all watch my brother's basketball games. If we went to a Broadway show, Dad would buy standing tickets for all seven of us."
An adult daughter moved her 88-year-old father into a unit inside her apartment building after his wife died in 2020 to provide closer daily support. The father remains highly independent and is considered a "super ager," but the family anticipates increasing reliance on caregivers. Three generations live nearby: the daughter, her son who lives with her, and another son who rents next to their grandfather. The father was a hands-on parent who balanced demanding work with family time, fostering shared activities like sports and theater, and he continues to be a central figure for grandchildren and a new great-grandchild.
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