Book Contents
- 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
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