GENERAL ARTICLES

Planning Your Parents' Move: A Step-by-Step Guide   How to help your parents make the move to assisted living or a nursing home. Avoid pitfalls and find the right situation for your parent.  Click here for the Step-by-Step Guide

Family Meeting Agenda: How to Manage Friends and Family  Use this agenda as a guide for a family (or friends) meeting on how to help your parent. Click here for the Family Meeting Agenda

Managing Friends and Family When You're the Primary Caregiver From holding family planning meetings to running your own blog or website, you can do a variety of things to enlist the support of friends and family - and keep them informed -- when you're caring for your parent.  Click here for "managing friends & family..."

The Ultimate Caregiver's Survival Guide  Are you dealing with eldercare issues and want to resolve them by choice, not crisis? So many people want to help their aging parents but are stressed and overwhelmed at just the thought of addressing their eldercare issues -- so they put it off, hoping it will all "get better."  Click here for the Ultimate Caregiver's Survival Guide.

Helping Your Parents Get Rid of Stuff   This is about how to get the Spring cleaning process started with your parents and help them get started getting rid of "stuff".  Click here for "Helping Your Parents Get Rid of Stuff.

How to Get Elder Care Under Control    Click here for Tips for getting eldercare under control.

Boomers as Primary Caregivers to Elderly Parents  Fear... dread... apprehension... this is not just the diagnosis of cancer, but also the reaction of many Baby Boomer children faced with the prospect of becoming intimately involved with their parents' care.  Click here for "Boomers as Primary Caregivers to Elderly Parents."

A Guide to Eldercare Options   A breakdown of available eldercare options and guidance from the freedom of living on one's own (perhaps in a smaller place) to the supportive environment of assisted living to the round-the-clock care available at skilled nursing facilities. Each offers something different, so sorting out your options is the first step.  Click here for "A Guide to Eldercare Options".

How to Hire an At-Home Caregiver  How to Hire a Caregiver. Hiring a home care aide or caregiver can help parents remain at home -- and take some pressure off the rest of the family.  Click here for "How to Hire an At-Home Caregiver."

How to Talk to Your Elderly Parents  Adult children and their parent often have trouble talking effectively. Small disagreements can be irksome and frustrating; if they simmer and grow, they can poison your last precious months and years together. Here are tips for talking to your elderly parents to help you avoid conflicts and misunderstandings.  Click here for "How to Talk to Your Elderly Parents."

Ten Things to Make Sure You've Told Your Parent's New Caregiver Before Her First Day of Work  You've finally found a great personal in-home caregiver or companion for your parent, and tomorrow is her first day. But wait: Have you forgotten to tell her anything? Use this list (and adapt it to your parent's needs) to make sure you've covered the bases. After discussing it with the caregiver, give her a hard copy for reference (mail it to her if you live far away.)  Click here for the "Ten Things ..."

15 Questions to Ask When Interviewing an In-home Healthcare Worker on Your Own  If you're hiring an in-home health care worker without going through an agency, these questions should help you find a reliable match for your parent. Involve your parent in the interview process as much as possible.  Click here for the "15 Questions to Ask When..."

Caring from Afar   Click here to find out "How to help your aging parents when you don't live next door."