Insights for Adult Children of Aging Parents

Articles and insights designed to help you navigate and understand the emotional and practical challenges of caring for or supporting aging parents.  

Mechanical Ventilation: What You Need to Know Before Making This Critical Decision

If you’ve ever filled out an advance healthcare directive, or helped your parent with one, you’ve likely come across the...

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What Is an Advance Healthcare Directive? (And Why Your Aging Parent Needs One Now)

If you have ever taken your parent to the doctor, the hospital, or the emergency room, you have probably been asked:

“D...

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How to Make an Informed CPR Decision for Your Parent

If you’re helping your aging parent complete an advance healthcare directive, there’s one decision that deserves more at...

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When There’s No Good Option for Your Aging Parent

Sometimes there isn’t enough money.
Sometimes there isn’t enough help.
Sometimes your aging parent is extremely difficul...

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Why Caring for an Aging Parent Feels So Hard (Even When You’re Capable)

You are not new to hard things.

You’ve built a career.
You’ve handled responsibility.
You’ve learned how to navigate co...

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When Respite Doesn’t Solve Caregiver Stress

If you are caring for an aging parent, you have probably heard the same advice many times.

Take a break.
Get some respi...

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Can I Move My Parent to Another State to Live With Me? What Families Must Know

There’s a moment that happens for a lot of adult children.

You’re on the phone with your parent… or maybe y

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How to Take Over Finances When an Aging Parent Can’t Manage Money (Without Damaging the Relationship)

There’s a moment that doesn’t get talked about enough.

It’s not when your parent forgets a name.
It’s not even when the...

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Important Legal Documents Every Aging Parent Should Have

Many families do not begin thinking about legal planning until a crisis occurs.

A sudden hospitalization, cognitive dec...

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What to Do When an Aging Parent Keeps Falling

If your aging parent has started falling more frequently, it is important to pay attention.

Falls are one of the leadin...

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