re: How do you deal with the guilt of living far away from your aging parents?

We just went through a bad experience with my wife's dad. Her parents divorced when she was young, her mother remarried and they moved to Alabama while her father was in Texas. When he retired, he moved to The Villages, FL, which is an even longer drive from our house. He recently had a stay in the hospital and was very upset we didn't come down there. It tore my wife up, she was on the phone with the hospital and him multiple times a day. But it was his choice to move so far away from his only child and grandkids so he can live his best life. He has cut off contact. He's always been an arse.