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Discover LudwigThe phrase "ailing parents" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe parents who are experiencing health issues or are unwell.
Example: "She took a leave of absence from work to care for her ailing parents."
Alternatives: "sick parents" or "ill parents."
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Some are caring for ailing parents.
They cared for their ailing parents.
Elderly, ailing parents are not usually presented so nakedly.
Santoro said that one prosecutor threatened to bring his ailing parents into the case.
More women are working, too, and cannot care for ailing parents.
In some cases, health care professionals say, grown children leave ailing parents at the hospitals and go on vacation.
In 1992, Andrews and her husband, Dave, returned to Granbury, population 8,200, to care for their ailing parents.
It also provides living expenses for them and for her two ailing parents, who are the children's carers.
"Death ends a life, but it does not end a relationship," he says as we meet his ailing parents, Tom and Margaret.
Such rules also make it hard to reward the deserving by, say, leaving more to a daughter who gave up a career to care for her ailing parents.
Whatever financial moves he has made, he said, were intended to sustain a nursing home that was a last happy refuge for his ailing parents.
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