A. Knowing when it’s time to act
B. Assessing your parent’s s situation
C. Family meetings
D. Developing an Extended Care Plan
E. Care Coordination: Making the pieces fit
F. Monitoring your care giving plan
G. Surviving the stresses of parent care

1) Financial considerations
2) Balancing work and family
3) Preventing bumout

A. Planning for the "what if" questions
B. Who, if anyone, relocates
C. What’ s really happening with your parent
D. Creating and utilizing your support network
E. Care Managers: Professional coordinated services
F. Rural care giving
G. Travel: Knowing when to go

A. Role reversal
B. Talking with your parent
C. Working with your siblings

A. Living independently at home
B. Home care/Assisted living
C. Your parent lives with you
D. Adult day care
E. Other alternatives

1) Continuing Care Retirement Communities
2) Age-segregated apartments
3) Board and care homes
4) Group homes or shared living
5) Congregate housing with services
6) Elder Cottage Housing Opportune
7) HUD subsidized senior housing

F. Nursing homes
G. Matching housing options with care giving needs.

A. Critically needed documents
B. Hospitals and the health care system
C. Mental and physical wellness
D. Age related ailments and diseases
E. Medications

A. The necessary of legal documents
B. Documents for life

1) Durable Powers of Attorney
2) Advance Directives (Living Wills)

C. Documents for death

1) Wills
2) Trusts

A. Finance

1) Talking about financial matters
2) Estate and Tax planning
3) Financial planners

B. Insurance

1) Policies and their intent
2) Medigap Insurance
3) Long-term Care Insurance

A. Social Security programs
B. Medicare
C. Medicaid
D. Older Americans Act

A. Preparing for death
B. Making funeral arrangements
C. Talking about death
D. Hospice care
E. Practical considerations after death
F. Dealing with grief