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Answers to Caregiving an Aging Parent:
What you can do to get action from your parent's doctor?
Does your parent need a Will or Living Trust?
Why do you or a sibling need Power of Attorney?
What housing options are available for older people?
What’s the best way to plan for asset protection?
How to find the best retirement home, board and care home, or nursing home, your parent can afford.
How do you recognize and deal with the beginning symptoms of dementia?
How can you prevent medical mistakes in hospitals?
- What is hospice and why is it so highly rated?
Reviews of Helping Your Aging Parent
A worthy & useful companion,
Reviewer: rebeccasreads from Clallam Bay, WA United States
At last someone who has done what I, as I was writing STANDING THE WATCH: Memories of a home death, could not. Here he takes us through the maze of understanding our parents' needs & wants, in a big book, with a CD tucked into the back flap so you can print out the things you'll need along the way.
When it comes to taking care of our parents, & by the millions, we baby-boomers are now facing this, most of us don't know where to begin. It is especially true if your parents have been independent & living on their own all your adult life.
I know well what William Grote means when he wrote: "Sooner or later most of us will have to step in and help our parents...being able to help...when they're truly in need is one of the most important opportunities you'll have in your lifetime. It's far more important than a promotion at work, or any personal achievement you may seek for yourself. It's a chance to get in touch with the meaning of why you're here, to become aware of the greater sense of your humanity, or even allowing you insight into your roles as a spiritual being." Page 6.
HELPING YOUR AGING PARENT is a worthy companion for everyone facing their parents' final years. It is reader-friendly, the cartoons are good for a giggle (you've got to hone your funny bone along with all your other skills!) & the information it contains, from health to economics, housing to hospice will be of immense use.
Very well done!
Advice for Taking Care of Parents,
Reviewer: Denise Clark- author/bookreviewer from Covina, CA
This reader was impressed by the amount of knowledge amassed by author Grote in his effort to help those faced with the awful decision of finding adequate care for the elderly. There has never been a greater need for the type of book author William J. Grote has put together, yet there comes a time when the information becomes essential to making the best decision possible for our loved ones.
In Helping Your Aging Parent, Grote offers advice that ranges from visiting the doctor with your parent/s to finding a hospice to making funeral arrangements. And because this is such a difficult subject for many to face, it's easy to see why so many put these arrangements off until the last possible moment. Who really wants to deal with trust funds and living wills when it's the parent we're worried about? What about the stress involved in seeking a retirement home or nursing home when it becomes painfully obvious our parent can no longer function on his or her own? The issue of housing for the elderly is thoroughly covered in Grote's book, as are warnings and issues to watch for when exploring options.
Mr. Grote also deals with geriatric illnesses ranging from Alzheimer's to various stages of dementia, hospital care, hospice care and the struggle most children face when dealing with the fact that their parent needs additional care. This extremely well written and researched book gives the reader a road map of sorts to follow, a guide for what to watch for and how to deal with nearly every imaginable situation. Face it - this is, unfortunately, an unavoidable subject. But after reading compassionate and intensively detailed how-to care book, it is obvious that ignoring the issues of aging won't make them go away. This book offers hard-earned advice and experience in ways to make the transition as stress free for the parent as possible, while offering support for those that are left to make difficult decisions. This is a must reference for any household, for sooner or later, we're all going to have to deal with the issue of aging and elderly care within our family.
Mr. Grote, a worker in the publishing industry for a quarter of a century, decided to put this book together after having to face the reality that his own parent was showing signs of suffering from dementia. This guide is the result of many lessons, frustrations and hours of research.
Reviewer: Midwest Book Review
Oregon, WI USA
Helping Your Aging Parent: A Step-By-Step Guide by William J. Grote is a superbly organized and highly accessible instructional reference and guide to determining when an aging parent needs help, to what extent one should step in and take charge, and presents easy-to-follow instructions and recommendations for the non-specialist general reader needing to navigating the legal and emotional maze of setting up trusts, power of attorney, finding the best and most affordable housing, surviving hospitalization, coping with mental disorders, nursing homes, and much more. An included CD-ROM contains 27 forms and checklists to help one sort through the book's information and put its advice to practical use. Helping Your Aging Parent is very highly recommended for anyone faced with the necessity of assisting their aged mother or father cope with the medical, emotional, financial, legal, and physical problems of old age.
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There comes a time in everyone's life when they have to pitch in and be a caregiver of their aging parents -- but where do you begin? How do you take charge? Where do you leave off? How do you get other family members involved in the caregiving process? What comes next in the caregiving of your aging parents?
You may suddenly get a call in the middle of the night that your aging parent had a stroke and you’re needed right away. Or you visit your aging parent and the mess and squalor of their unkempt home tells you senile dementia may be taking over. How do you take an aging parent to the doctor? What questions should you ask? Do you need a living trust? Power of Attorney? What about housing options for elderly seniors? How can you evaluate a nursing home? How should you step in and help an aging parent who may not want or even appreciate your help? Where do you start? How do you get your brothers and sisters involved?
Helping Your Aging Parent may be one of the only guides available today that takes you step-by-step through the entire process of dealing with the responsibilities having an aging parent places on you. Much of what is written actually comes from the author’s own experience of taking on the care of his own parent, while maintaining a family and a busy career. The advice walks you and your aging parent through the health care, housing, legal, nursing home, and hospice systems. You'll find tips to help you avoid the pitfalls the author fell in as well as assurance when you are doing the best you can.
This book includes all the tools you’ll need to help you work on one of life’s biggest challenges — caring for an aging parent who may not appreciate, or even recognize your help. You’ll find down-to-earth advice on dealing with problems that occur at each stage of the experience. Includes a FREE CD-ROM with all the forms and checklists from the book. Open the forms you need with your word processing program, for either IBM-style or Macintosh computers. Change them to suit your needs, fill them out and print. Or open in Adobe Acrobat Reader and fill out by hand. Also includes links to valuable Websites for more information on each subject listed in the book.
BOOK CONTENT
How Do You Know Your Parent Needs Your Help?
Awakening to the Problem
Admitting the Need
How to Determine if there's Really a Problem
Parent Health Evaluation Checklist
Make Sure Your Parent Sees a Doctor
When to Step in and Take Charge
Family Enlistment Form
The Doctor Visit
Evaluating Your Parent's Current Health Care
Prescription Drug List
Prescription Drug Web Sites
Keep Your Perspective
Getting Background Information for the Doctor
Symptoms Observed and Questions Checklist
Family Medical History Checklist
Checklist of Things to Bring on Doctor Exam
Following Up After the Doctor Exam
Accepting the Results
Programs to Help Seniors
Signing Up For The Future
Trusts
Setting Up a Trust
Specialized Trusts
Who Needs a Trust?
Who Doesn't Need a Trust?
Power of Attorney for Health Care
Durable Power of Attorney for Finances
What Happens if Your Parent Won't Sign?
Life Directives
Sample Life Directive
Sample Living Will
Death Directives and Last Requests
Personal Information Fact Sheet
Housing: Finding the Best Option for Your Parent
The Four Choices for Moving
Option 1: Moving Your Parent in With You
Building a Granny Flat
Option 2: Have Someone Come to Your Parent
Roommates
Rental Application Form
Live-in Care
Roommate Agreement Form
Website of National Organizations for Housing
Option 3: Foster Care
Option 4: Senior Apartments
Evaluation Checklist for a Senior Apartment
Option 5: Independent Living Retirement Homes
Evaluation Checklist for Independent Homes
Monthly Income and Expense Worksheet
Assisted Living Care
Personal Financial Worksheet
Option 6: Three-Part Care Facilities
Option 7: A Board and Care Home
Checklist for Residential Board and Care Facility
Living With Your Housing Decision
Surviving the Hospital
Getting Your Parent Admitted
How to Prevent an Adverse Event
Get to Know the Nurses
Drug Allergy Notice
Preventing a Drug Allergy
How to Prevent Bedsores
Privacy Notice
Surviving an Operation
Release From the Hospital
Dealing With Your Feelings
Studies on the Power of Prayer
Dealing With Dementia and Other Mental Disorders
Identifying Dementia and Other Mental Disorders
Most Common Types of Dementia
Warning Signals of Dementia or Mental Illness
The Doctor Visit
The Memory Test
Dealing With Doctor Denial
The Geriatric Assessment Evaluation
What Causes Dementia?
Nothing to Fear but Fear Itself
Learning to Live With the Stigma
Advanced Housing Needs
Dealing With the Decline
Communicating
Dealing With Wandering
Incontinence
Dealing With Angry or Agitated Behavior
Terminal or End Stage Dementia
Nursing Homes
When Your Parent May Need a Nursing Home
What Nursing Homes Do
Finding a Nursing Home
Nursing Home Checklist
The Secret State Inspection Report
Making Your Parent Comfortable
Handling Major Problems or Concerns
Attending Assessment Meetings
Assessment Meeting Questions
Helping With Rehabilitation
Nursing Home Expenses
Sources of Income
Asset Protection
Visiting an Asset Protection Lawyer
Visiting a Financial Planner
Nursing Home Alternatives
Don't Expect an Overnight Cure
Hospice, Death and Funerals
What is Hospice?
How do You Find a Good Hospice?
Hospice Checklist
Signing Up for Hospice
Sample Do Not Resuscitate Order
Changes That Appear as Death Approaches
Giving Permission to Go
Signals That the End is Near
The Final Moment
Getting Through the Details
Post-Death Checklist
Planning a Funeral or Memorial Service
Mortuary/Cremation Fact List
Using the Disk in the Back of This Book
Index
