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Planning For The Care of Aging Parents

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1. The best time to plan for when your parents can no longer live on their own is:
a) When your mother breaks her hip and can't care for herself.
b) When your parents are healthy and there is no problem on the horizon.
c) When you decide to confront your parents directly because they have been avoiding the issue.
d) Between five and ten years after the youngest parent retires.
2. What's the best way to assess an aging parent's ability to continue living alone?
a) A family discussion that honestly addresses everyone's feelings, desires and issues.
b) Ask the parent what he or she wants to do and then try to obtain insurance coverage for their preferences.
c) Conduct a detailed assessment of mental and physical health, social supports, lifestyle factors and finances to figure out the best way to meet your parent's needs.
d) Meet with local health care providers to determine a parent's medical emergency needs as well as daily medication requirements.
3. If you arrange for custodial care for your parents, you are having someone come in once or twice a week to clean their house.
a) True
b) False
4. Which of these people is a caregiver?
a) The family friend who calls before going to the grocery store to see if your mother needs anything while he's there.
b) A woman who cooks and freezes ready-made meals for her widowed father, who's helpless in the kitchen, so he has some nutritious home-cooked meals on hand.
c) A son who moves his mother into his house so he can take care of her while she is recovering from a hip fracture.
d) All of the above.
5. Which important information should you keep on hand in case your parents have an emergency?
a) Social Security number
b) Bank account numbers.
c) Health insurance policy number.
d) All of the above.

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