Let’s Talk About Aging Parents: A Real-Life Guide to Solving Problems with 27 Essential Conversations (EPUB3) von Laura Tamblyn Watts

Part 1: The house, home care, and moving out

• Is my parent’s home ready for them to age in place?
• Does my parent need help around the house?
• How can I work with family members to coordinate my parent’s care?
• Is it time for my parent to move into some kind of independent living or retirement home?
• When is it time for long-term care, and how can we shop for the best option?
• How can we make my parent’s long-term care experience as good as possible?
• Does my parent need to downsize their possessions?

Part 2: Mental capacity, power of attorney, and elder abuse         

• How will I know if my parent has cognitive impairment or dementia, and what should we do about it?
• What is power of attorney (POA)?
• What if my parent doesn’t have POA set up, and when is it too late to do this?
• What if my family argues about POA?

Part 3: Love, loss, and lots more feelings

• How do I deal with guilt?
• What if my parent is toxic?
• Why is my parent getting divorced now?
• Is my parent having safe senior sex?
• How can I talk about grief with my parent?
• How can the generations stay connected?

Part 4: Health, hearing loss, and horrible driving

• What aging-related medical issues should we watch out for?
• What do we do about my parent’s hearing problems?
• What do we do about my parent’s vision loss?
• What do we do about my parent’s incontinence?
• Is it time for my parent to stop driving?
• Does my parent have issues with alcohol?
• How can we manage my parent’s medications?

Part 5: Tech tips and tricks

• Does my parent need help with discovering and using new technology?
• Is my parent getting scammed and what can I do about it?