Helpng your aging parent

Book Contents

  1. 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
  2. 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
  3. 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
  4. 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
  5. 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
  6. 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
  7. 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
  8. 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
  9. Using the Disk in the Back of This Book

 

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