My grandmother refused to leave the tiny shotgun shack she lived in in what was essentially a ghost town in central Missouri until she was too sick and senile to resist. This in spite of the fact that two of her surviving children were doing well enough to take her in and had asked her repeatedly to live with them. At the time we lived two states away and couldn’t visit very often. So I’m thinking that even if Obama had asked her to live with him and/or offered to put her in a nice house with staff, she may have flatly refused being of the generation like my grandparents and parents of intense self reliance. In this story I see one valid criticism of Obama - he should have been there to see her at least once every month or two for the years leading up to her death. But my son should call me more often and he’s a good person. Oh well.
Obama only saw her a couple of times in the last 2 years of her life - for a few hours total. His wife and daughter saw her once, on a visit measured in minutes.
I don’t think Michelle or Barry wanted on old white woman in their house.