Managing Caregiving Details: The Basics
By: Source: AARP.org Date Posted: 2006-04-27 11:03:10.002949-04:00
Seminar Introduction
As your parents age and you step in to help them, you may find yourself wrestling with a variety of unfamiliar and difficult issues. You may have to find transportation for a parent who can no longer drive, locate public resources to help pay for a nursing home stay or try to demystify complicated legal issues.
Though these tasks can be difficult, with a little research and planning you can ensure that your parents are well cared for. This seminar aims to get you started by outlining some of the most common issues for caregivers and strategies for handling them.
Learning Objectives
- Identify three strategies to ensure that your parents are driving as safely as possible.
- List four ways to improve communication with your parent’s doctors.
- Outline the major public benefit programs for aging adults, and identify which ones your parent may qualify for.
- List three legal documents that can help ensure that your parents’ finances and health concerns will be taken care of should they lose the ability to conduct their own affairs.
Credits
This seminar is the third in a series about caring for your aging parents. The other seminars on this topic include Planning for the Care of Aging Parents and Providing the Care.
 Options and Strategies for the Care of Your Aging Parents |
 Caring for Aging Parents: Managing the Details |
Technical Requirements
To appreciate this seminar experience, it is critical that you have the appropriate software, plug-ins, and network connections. Please take the time to download the latest versions of the plug-ins mentioned below if you do not already have them.
Browser: Internet Explorer 6 and higher, Netscape 7.2 and higher or equivalent browser. Your browser must be JavaScript-enabled and must be set to accept cookies.
Network Connection: The recommended minimum connection is 56Kbps. A faster connection is encouraged to take better advantage of the media elements in the seminar.
Contributors
AARP Outreach and Support, Health and Supportive Services Team
This seminar is brought to you through the AARP Outreach and Support, Health and Supportive Services team. One of this team's goals is to expand people’s access to information and resources and give them the knowledge to cope with aging situations. Using this knowledge, they can make choices that meet their or their loved one's needs and improve the quality of life.
AARP is a nonprofit, nonpartisan membership organization dedicated to making life better for people 50 and over. We provide information and resources; engage in legislative, regulatory and legal advocacy; assist members in serving their communities; and offer a wide range of unique benefits, special products, and services for our members. These include AARP The Magazine, published bimonthly; AARP Bulletin, our monthly newspaper; AARP Segunda Juventud, our quarterly newspaper in Spanish; NRTA Live and Learn, our quarterly newsletter for 50+ educators; and our Web site, www.aarp.org. We have staffed offices in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
Inside This Lesson
Seminar Introduction
Communicating with Health Professionals
Public Programs to Investigate
Knowledge Test
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