Handling Parent Care Challenges
Each family’s parent care challenges are unique – shaped by a parent’s physical, mental and emotional condition and by family dynamics and circumstances. Examples below are common challenges. When a warning flag calls you to parent care action, you might find yourself faced with one of these. For each example of a “challenge”, the “care manager solution” describes how a geriatric care manager can help.
A geriatric care manager can work with both children and parents. He or she can guide children in coming to respect parents’ dignity and wisdom in making their own decisions. A care manager can engage parents in discussing decisions they can make while still healthy and mentally competent. He or she can empower parents to take action and make decisions that control how their legal and financial affairs and personal care will be handled when they can no longer manage their own affairs.
When you suggest they consider planning ahead, your parents react with anger, denial and resistance or they simply procrastinate. At the same time, you experience feelings of anguish and ambivalence around the prospect of your looming parent care role.
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