>>it was clear that my mother was relieved when we told her we were taking her home.
All credit to the Granors. Surveys indicate that while outwardly co-operating with heroic attempts insisted on by family, often the elderly want nothing more than to be resting comfortably at home in their waning days. Instead they're hooked up to the machine that goes ping and are poked and prodded towards an uncomfortable slightly delayed demise.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
