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this post was submitted on 09 Apr 2024
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I saw an analysis that very convincingly showed that all of this generation's inheritance will be spent on nursing homes and healthcare for their parents. So none of the boomer wealth will even be passed on to their children. On average, at least.
That's not hard to believe. My parents (Silent Gen actually) passed away with their house paid off, but left about $60k of nursing home and medical debt. So, in order to close the estate, we had 3 choices: pay off the debt and keep the house, sell the house to pay off the debt, get a mortgage to pay the debt and keep the house.
We kept the house, but if they'd had like 150k or more in debt, forget it.