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This is a very comprehensive guide to helping you answer many questions involved in the planning and decisions to care for your aging parent or senior.
BE PREPARED …..
JUST IN CASE YOU OR SOMEONE YOU LOVE GETS OLD
This important resource guide includes:
- What to do WHEN CRISIS HITS
- How to find local References and Referrals
- What to do to GET ORGANIZED
- How to Know when it’s time to act
- How to Assess your parent’s situation
- What is involved in a Family meeting
- How do you developing an extended care plan
- What is involved in elder care coordination: How to Make the pieces fit
- How to monitor your care giving plan
- How do you Survivie the stresses of parent care
- What financial considerations must be considered
- How to Prevent burnout
- Care giving from a distance
- Planning for the “what if” questions
- Who, if anyone, relocates
- What’s really happening with your parent
- Creating and utilizing your support network
- Care Managers: Professional coordinated services
- Rural care giving
- Travel: Knowing when to go
- Talking with your parent
- Working with siblings
- HOUSING ALTERNATIVES AND SUPPORT SERVICES
- Living independently at home
- Home care/assisted living
- The decision to have your parent lives with you
- Adult day care
- Continuing Care Retirement Communities
- Age-segregated apartments
- Board and care homes
- Group homes or shared living
- Congregate housing with services
- Elder Cottage Housing Opportunity
- HUD subsidized senior housing
- Nursing homes
- Matching housing options with care giving needs
- Medical and health issues
- Critically needed documents
- Hospitals and the health care system
- Mental and physical wellness
- Age-related ailments and diseases
- Medications
- LEGAL ISSUES: PROTECTING YOUR PARENT’S WISHES AND ASSETS
- The necessity of legal documents
- Documents for life
- Durable Powers of Attorney
- Advance Directives (Living Wills)
- Documents for death
- Wills
- Trusts
- THE BUSINESS SIDE OF CARE GIVING: FINANCE AND INSURANCE
- Talking about financial matters
- Estate and Tax planning
- Financial planners
- Insurance
- Policies and their intent
- Medigap insurance
- Long-term care insurance
- GOVERNMENT PROGRAMS
- Social Security
- Medicare
- Medicaid
- Preparing for death
- Making funeral arrangements
- Talking about death
- Hospice care
- Practical considerations after death
- Dealing with grief
- WORLD WIDE WEB SITES
- READING LIST
