Helping Your Aging Parent: A Step-by-Step Guide -- Revised

Most of us don't know when to step in with an aging parent - especially if they're independent and living on their own. When should you get involved? How will you protect your parent's assets and provide emotional support?

Here are the tools you'll need to steer through one of life's most challenging and rewarding experiences - caring for an aging parent.

This revised guide takes you step-by-step through the caregiving process:

- Be an advocate for your parent.

- Assess existing asset protection, and adjust as needed.

- Identify and manage physical symptoms complicated by age.

- Locate community services and resources.

- Deal with dementia and mental difficulties.

- Find the best housing at an affordable price.

- Choose and obtain acute, long-term, and hospice care.

- Plan a memorial to honor your parent and help loved ones say "goodbye."

Learn from a journalist who dealt firsthand with the problems encountered with his own aging parent. His "from the trenches" experience and research provide a candid resource. Facts, forms, worksheets, and references simplify the process. The humorous real-life anecdotes lend levity and humility to this serious topic.

ISBN-13: 9780971737310

Media Type: Paperback

Publisher: Boomer Books

Publication Date: 10-21-2022

Pages: 194

Product Dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.41(d)

William J. Grote has a degree in journalism and spent over 35 years in the publishing industry, specializing in technical manuals and helping guides. As editor of an architectural magazine, his job included writing technical articles and news releases.He was introduced into the field of aging when his once-independent 78-year-old mother began exhibiting signs of dementia. He learned "on the job" the sometimes-overwhelming complexities and emotional rollercoaster of dealing with every aspect of the process, from doctor visits, the understandable resistance of a person clinging to independence, the medical issues, finding appropriate housing - to the inevitable end. He wrote the first edition of "Helping Your Aging Parent" soon after, in 2002. Now, with the clarity of hindsight and with a newfound levity only the passage of time will allow, in this revised edition he provides a lighter, warmer, more personal look while retaining all the detailed facts, choices, and guidance you'll find essential if you take this challenging but greatly rewarding journey.Now retired, Mr. Grote spends his time writing, but also making wine each year with grapes from his own micro-vineyard in San Diego, and tending his garden of rare fruit trees.