[单项选择] When Mom and Dad Grow Old
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 don’t want to raise sensitive issues with their parents about bringing in caregivers or moving," she says. "They’ll say, ’I don’t want to see Dad cry.’" But Green usually responds, "What’s wrong with that " Adult children, she says, need to try to join their parents in grieving their decline, acknowledge their living arrangements may on longer work and, if necessary, help them say goodbye to their beloved home. "It’s sad. And it’s supposed to be. It’s about death itself."
There are almost four million men and women over age 65 in Canad

• a. Nearly two thirds of them manage to patch together enough support—from family, friends, private anti government ser vices-to live independently until virt
  A. encourage their parents to live independently
  B. spend more time with their parents at weekends
  C. try to share their fragile parents’ grieving feelings
  D. give their parents spiritual as well as financial help