My aunt died wealthy, not super rich, with approx. £1 million. After my Dad died in Sept 1993 that aunt who was in a nursing home and hated it, demanded that my Mother (13 years younger) rather than emigrating to Canada to join me, take care of her in a home she purchased in Chandler's Ford near where my parents lived. She was very demanding and died 2 years later allowing my Mother to finally emigrate to Canada in Nov 1996 at age 76 where 3 months later she suffered a TIA, was put on blood pressure meds, which she hated, then a heart attack 7 weeks later, that she survived but I was told in ER that she would not be given the blood thinner Heparin due to stroke history. However a couple of days later the heart specialize told us after "enzyme" test that no damage to heart was present and that she must get out of bed and perform light exercise. Yet that same day Mum was put on IV Heparin and developed a bleed that could not clot resulting in massive haemorradic stroke that resulted in nursing home placement resulting in C$60,000 care bill, but the saving grace was that as a result of my Mother taking care of her sister, my aunt changed her will in favour of Mum rather than inheritance split 3 ways with the families of her other two sisters, and this money helped pay for her 12 years of nursing home care that was a blessing for me because when my Mother emigrated as a Landed Immigrant I had signed an undertaking that I would pay for her long term medical care for 10 years if she should require that.
