Are you ready for the day when you no longer feel your parents are safe living alone? What plans have you made with them, what actions set in place?
Will your parents come live with you or move into an assisted living facility? Are they already living in an adult active community? Are they still driving safely or have means of getting around to the store, to doctors. to friends, family and out for fun?
How often do you see your parents? How often do you talk with them on the telephone?
Do you have a nuclear family into which fitting your parents would be burdensome:? Or do you welcome the thought of having them as a regular and daily part of your extended family as was the norm until the baby boomer generation?
Do your parents feel needed? Everyone needs to feel important and everyone needs to feel needed.
Assist your parents with asset protection and finances and insurance needs while they are still well and able to take part in the choices. Doing so can save their home If something happens to their health that incurs high medical expenses.
If your parents have money to afford to live some place other than with you or family members how do you handle the choice of what to do? How long will their money last in the outside world of independent or even assisted living? ensure no public facility will kick them out when their funds run out.
Make the plans while your parents are well and happy If you need to make changes, do so now while they enjoy life and an awareness of their world, while. socially active and taking part in life.
That way, where ever they are the place is already familiar to them when changes begin to sneak up unnoticed until life gets really challenging.
Remember, when emotions go up intelligence goes down. Please set plans while your parents are well. Crisis time is no time to start figuring out what to do.
Keep in mind the fact that one day you will be the older parent so make the plans for your own future when you make the plans for your parents.
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By Ali Bierman
ezinearticles.com
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