Your Essential Guide to Aging Parents

This is called essential for a reason. What a thorough book to handle a multitude of issues when it comes to elder patient care. I love the scripts it gives to help in emotional scenarios and times when preciseness is needed. The author has a winner here. I wish this book would have been published when my folks were around. Both had medical issues and I was forced to step up and help them survive the best a teenager could do. I think that every parent should get this book for their children to read in case the time comes around that the children are called slip on to help their parents. Excellent read and very knowledge filled. I believe it will be and easy read for them to help them understand what they will need to expect if or when their parent or parents need their assistance. This is a easy to read resource on a stage of life so many of us are facing and will face. It covers a lot of topics, some obvious but those not as much. It offers lots of tips and scripts on how to be the best advocate for your aging parent, or any aging adult you might be taking care of as they progress into the later stages of life. It isn't always an easy emotional read, as you learn all the difficult tasks you may have to face and that can be hard to understand as you come to terms with your aging parents. But the practical feedback is very valuable. Highly recommend this book. It breaks down the caregiver into steps. It has a system to stay organized: caregiver binder, checklists, and digital tools Information about housing options, changes, downsizing, and moving support for your parents' dignity and well-being tools for caregiving in complex families and diverse cultures. There is advice for taking care of yourself and handling burnout, guilt, and grief Guidance for legacy and end-of-life planning (including hospice/palliative care) and so much more I can't list it all here, just get the book. Very informative! This book explains lot about aging how finances can really impact their life especially when it has to deal with having less money not enough money to pay bills once you get old things start to tear up in your house and your income is limit so many bills to be paid is part of aging and becoming older. This book explains everything about how to manage your finances and your wellbeing. All the decision you make when you are younger all depends on how well you do when you get older. It is very supportive book about health and to be healthy and what foods to eat and exercise and take care of yourself is a big plus when you are younger when you eat healthy and exercise it helps your overall help and exercise it does impact when you get older. Dealing with hospital bills when you aging it will cost you lot of money visiting the hospital when you are sick.