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Preparing Your Aging Parents For The Transition To Living Assistance

By Judi October 9th, 2011

As our generation ages most of us will be confronted with the same issue-how do we help our aging parents make the transition from independent living to some form of living assistance? There are many resources to help adult children caregivers with these concerns. One of those resources is a Senior Move Manager.

Mary Kay Buysse is an aging services professional who is currently serving as the Executive Director at the National Association of Senior Move Managers (NASMM). NASMM is a 501(c)(6), non-profit, professional association of organizations dedicated to assisting older adults and families with the physical and emotional demands of downsizing, relocating, or modifying their homes.

Mary Kay is also a member and contributing author at Parentgiving.com‘s Ask An Expert forum. I came across her thoughtful answer to this question from one …

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My Elderly Father's Change Of Heart

By Carol October 4th, 2011

I am excited to realize that we have been publishing Inside Aging Parent Care for a year and a half now. In celebration of this most recent anniversary, here is our very first post:

For many of us, it begins with a phone call. In our case, the call came from my 89 year old father late in the spring of 2008. He had been released from Waterman Hospital after his third bout with pneumonia a few weeks earlier. “I’ve been thinking,” he said, “why am I here when you are there?”

We had often encouraged Dad to consider moving from his home at an assisted living facility in Central Florida to join us in Denver where Bill and I have lived for the past twenty years. Up until now he had always resisted …

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Family Caregiving Fallout

By Bill September 29th, 2011

When Frank decided to leave Assisted Living in Florida, he moved to Denver. Audrey moved to a nursing home in Boise where Judi, her son Doug, and her new husband Willie live. The result of this trans-continental moving, caregiving, and visiting is that the family became much closer.

This blog, Inside Aging Parent Care, has also helped bring us together. All the family reads it, and Steve has guest-posted. The whole thing was Judi’s idea. She is our technical wizard and writes very well for someone from Idaho. Carol is the theoretician, and I bring the married into the family perspective.

There is the other side of caregiving for elder parents. When the elders start to lose their independence, the children often find themselves in conflict about what to do. The direct caregiving duties …

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Caregivers and Their Aging Parent Plan Ahead

By Carol May 15th, 2011

Were we smart or lucky? Looking back, I’m just not sure. Either way a little bit of preplanning made a big difference when Dad took a fall one night in his pleasant Florida patio home where he lived alone after our stepmother Elizabeth died.

We were smart when we hired a geriatric care manager, the amazing Elinor Gorgas of Central Florida Medical Legal Consulting, to look in on Dad every month or so. She advised us on his present needs and future needs that might arise. So, just in case, we toured a few of the local assisted living communities in the area on one of our visits.

Dad wasn’t ready to move then, and we did not belabor the point with him that staying in his home might not be forever. The day …

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Inside the Assisted Living Experience

By Carol May 3rd, 2011

Dad chose assisted living after a serious fall at home left him on the floor overnight. He had just come through a difficult rainy season when he weathered three hurricanes in two months time. The downside of living alone had never been more apparent to him.

First thing that morning he told his home health aide he was ready to move and by evening she and her husband had him ensconced in his new studio apartment up the hill at Laurel Springs. Bill and I arrived the next day to help him get settled in. Although I know he wavered about his decision more than once, I was proud and relieved that he chose his own safety and made the decision for himself.

Dad lived at Laurel Springs for a few years …

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