'My Mum Expects Me To Care For Her In Old Age. How Do I Tell Her I Can't?'

<div><img src="https://img.huffingtonpost.com/asset/68f8ddd4180000493bfe3dd2.jpg?ops=scalefit_630_noupscale" alt="Woman looking concerned" data-caption="Woman looking concerned" data-credit-link-back="" data-credit="Alexei Maridashvili via Unsplash" />Woman looking concerned</div><script>!function(n){if(!window.cnx){window.cnx={},window.cnx.cmd=[];var t=n.createElement('iframe');t.display='none',t.onload=function(){var n=t.contentWindow.document,c=n.createElement('script');c.src='//cd.connatix.com/connatix.player.js',c.setAttribute('async','1'),c.setAttribute('type','text/javascript'),n.body.appendChild(c)},n.head.appendChild(t)}}(document);</script><script id="68f8eb99e4b0dbac45922f9d">(new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=8b034f64-513c-4987-b16f-42d6008f7feb';cnx.cmd.push(function(){cnx({"playerId":"8b034f64-513c-4987-b16f-42d6008f7feb","mediaId":"d68ee749-1c57-4dd4-a90c-9f66f875b701"}).render("68f8eb99e4b0dbac45922f9d");});</script><div class="content-list-component text"><p>Over-50s <a href="https://www.standard.co.uk/homesandproperty/property-news/baby-boomers-property-wealth-uk-london-generation-property-gap-b1077686.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">own 78% of the UK’s property wealth</a>, and the <a href="https://www.ft.com/content/c69b49de-1368-11e9-a581-4ff78404524e" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Financial Times reports</a> that one in five “Boomers” are millionaires (largely due to soaring property prices). </p><p>But, like all modern wealth, this is a story of <a href="https://equalitytrust.org.uk/scale-economic-inequality-uk/" target="_