Elder Parent Care

Are you the one caring for an aging parent while your siblings stay distant, avoid responsibility, or criticize from the sidelines? You have siblings. But somehow, the care still falls on you. You are the one answering the calls, tracking appointments, noticing safety concerns, handling family updates, and making decisions no one else wants to make. Your siblings may care. They may even say they want to help. But when real responsibility appears, they stay distant, vague, defensive, or critical. When You’re the Only One Helping an Aging Parent is a practical guide for adult children ...

Are you worried about taking care of your elderly parents? Do you know how to select the best facility for their needs and financial situation? Kady Dash shares her experiences of what you must know before choosing a place for mom or dad. In this book you will learn: • What eighty questions to ask before selecting a facility • Legal advice Kady got about signing forms, including what not to sign • What to do when the savings to pay for room and board run out • Clarifications of questions on Medicaid forms • Medicaid’s unwritten rules, including deadlines that are not the final ...

At first, Ken Abraham wrote off his mother’s changes in behavior as quirks that just come with old age. There was memory loss, physical decline, hygiene issues, paranoia, and uncharacteristic attitudes. He soon realized that dementia had changed her life — and his family’s — forever...

When you realize your aging parent needs help, the hardest part is often knowing what you are really seeing. Maybe it started with missed appointments. Unopened mail. Spoiled food. A confusing conversation. A fall no one mentioned. Unsafe driving. Poor hygiene. Medication concerns. A home that no longer feels as managed as it used to. Or a parent who keeps saying everything is fine. You may be asking yourself: Am I overreacting? Is this serious? Should I step in? How do I bring this up without making my parent feel attacked? What if my parent refuses help? What if my siblings do not agree? ...

Caregiving: How to Hold On While Letting Go – Real Help, Hope & Humor for Alzheimer’s, Dementia & Parkinson’s Caregivers Are you caring for a loved one with Alzheimer’s, Dementia, or Parkinson’s disease? You're not alone—and this book is here to walk with you through the emotional and practical challenges with actionable strategies. In Caregiving: How to Hold On While Letting Go, Debbie DeMoss Compton shares her firsthand experiences, heartfelt encouragement, and real-world solutions to help you manage the stress and uncertainty of caregiving. Backed by research, interviews, and...

Nobody hands you a manual when the people you love start getting older. Most of us are expected to figure it out as we go. One day everything seems fine. Then you start noticing things. Mom repeats herself three times. Dad probably shouldn’t be driving at night. The house isn’t being kept up quite the way it used to be. Someone falls. A hospital stay happens. And suddenly the family is trying to figure out a world of home care, assisted living, memory care, Medicare, long-term care insurance, legal documents, and costs that nobody saw coming. Senior Living Made S.I.M.P.L.E.™ helps you...

She loves her parents. She is also tired of being the person who handles everything. It rarely starts as caregiving. It starts with a ride, a password, a prescription, a form, or one Saturday that becomes every Saturday. Then one day, your calendar, your phone, and part of your attention seem to belong to everyone else. You become the person everyone calls because you are capable. Reliable. Available. And before long, being the one who can handle things quietly turns into being the one who is expected to handle everything. I Love My Parents. I'm Tired of Handling Everything is for adult ...

What do you do when your parent’s money life starts showing signs that something may be wrong? An unpaid bill. A confusing bank notice. A strange withdrawal. A pile of unopened mail. A suspicious phone call. A sibling who dismisses your concerns. A parent who insists everything is fine, even when the paperwork says otherwise. When Money Becomes the First Warning Sign is a practical, calm, and deeply human guide for adult children who are beginning to worry about an aging parent’s bills, banking, paperwork, scams, family conflict, or power of attorney questions. This is not a legal ...

A gentle Catholic prayer companion for elderly readers, the sick, the housebound, and those who want familiar prayers close at hand. As eyesight weakens, strength fades, or illness makes long prayer difficult, many faithful Catholics still desire one thing deeply: to remain close to God. A Large-Print Catholic Prayer Book for Seniors was created for that tender season of life. Written in a reverent, peaceful, and traditional Catholic spirit, this book gathers simple prayers, Scripture passages, familiar devotions, and words of comfort for the ordinary and difficult moments of later life. It...

From Burnout to Bliss: Discover a powerful solution that brings joy back to caregiving. It starts with the little things, doesn't it? Mom forgetting to turn off the stove, or Dad insisting on a winter sweater in July. Suddenly, a slip in the bathroom leads to a heart-pounding, E.R.-bound adventure. Your once-stable life becomes a tornado of caregiving responsibilities.

YOU CAN CARE FOR AN AGING PARENT WITHOUT SACRIFICING YOUR ENTIRE LIFE. You may not call yourself a caregiver. You may simply be the person who answers calls, schedules appointments, manages medications, handles paperwork, responds to emergencies, and worries about what will happen next. Meanwhile, you are still working, managing a household, supporting your family, protecting your finances, and trying to hold on to your own health and relationships. Something has to change. Aging Parents Without Losing Yourself is a practical 30-day guide for Generation X adults navigating elder care, ...

Long Term Care Essentials: A Practical Guide to Long-Term Care Planning, Financial Protection, and Caring for Aging Parents Are you ready to make informed, confident choices about long-term care for yourself or a loved one? Long Term Care Essentials is your comprehensive guide to navigating the complex landscape of elder care, financial planning for aging, and protecting your family’s future. Whether you’re preparing for your own long-term needs or caring for aging parents, this book offers clear, practical strategies to help you take control. What You’ll Discover Inside: Effective ...

Caring for our aging parents—whether we take them into our homes or support them from a distance—is a beautiful opportunity for us to honor them. It can also be an intensely demanding process in which we discover things about them, about ourselves, and about the difficulties of old age that stretch and challenge us.

“Your insights are both poignantly personal and profoundly helpful. You have obviously ‘been there,’ so you truly understand and it comes through. Your treatise on this difficult subject can make a real impact on others.” Beth Zeuthen, Nurse Practitioner and Family Caregiver The day Bruce Willis received his official diagnosis, his wife Emma Heming Willis walked out of the doctor’s office holding a pamphlet. “No plan, no guidance, no hope, just shock. The future we imagined simply vanished, and I was left trying to hold my family together, raise our two young daughters, and care...

Elderly Parent Caregiver Guide is the ultimate guide for adult children who are or will become their parents’ caregivers. Filled with valuable information and ideas, this book offers hope, support, and plenty of practical advice for anyone caring for their elderly parents. As the author guides you through the maze of caregiving, she shares her knowledge as a nurse and examples from her own journey of caregiving for her elderly parents.

In this audiobook, author Joseph Spada, LPN, offers you insider's guidance into long-term care, clearly explaining what your options are, and the pros and cons of each. He shows you how to find and select the best facility for your needs, and most importantly, what to watch out for.

Discover the social, financial, legal, and medical hurdles you and your parents need to prepare for to help them age independently, while giving you peace of mind for their safety and wellbeing. This heartfelt and genuine parent care book gives you a first-hand look at the tough but necessary needs of your aging parents or grandparents. From financial discussions to debates on relocation, from finding resources to questions on transportation, They’re Getting Older takes you step-by-step through the process with helpful examples, easy-to-follow lists, and questions at the end of each ...

This book is for you if you love your parents, grandparents, or other elderly people and genuinely want to help and care for them, but find yourself struggling with challenges such as: Your efforts to help them are not appreciated. They constantly complain or display a pessimistic attitude. They appear inflexible, stubborn, and unwilling to change. They struggle to learn even the basics of digital equipment. They fail to understand your point of view. They ignore health precautions prescribed by doctors. They engage in risky activities that could endanger their health. They sometimes treat ...

Updated September, 2025! You never imagined you'd be the one making life-and-death decisions for your mom or dad. Now what? When Alzheimer’s or dementia strikes someone you love, it can feel like you're suddenly in charge of everything—without a roadmap. This real-world dementia survival guide answers with detailed and practical advice the exact questions every caregiver ends up facing: What if Mom refuses to leave her home, even when it’s no longer safe? When do I take away Dad's car keys—or checkbook? Should I correct her when she says things that are just plain false? What do I ...

How To Deal With a Parent With Dementia. A Practical Guide to Communicate with Compassion, Manage Challenging Behaviors, Reduce Caregiver Burnout, Make Difficult Decisions with Confidence, and Care for Your Parent Without Losing Yourself. If you're searching for real answers on how to deal with a parent with dementia, you already know the hardest part isn't the diagnosis — it's every day after it. The repeated questions. The accusations that come out of nowhere. The guilt when you lose your patience. The exhaustion no one warned you about. This book was written for exactly this moment. ...