Caring For Your Parents
Knowing Public Benefits
Programs
Older adults can have a hard time paying for things like health care and food.
AARP's tip sheet will introduce you to some of the public programs
available to help and tell you how to help your parents apply for benefits.
Checking Legal Issues
As we grow older, we may be unable to control our own health care and financial
decisions. Learn how you can help your parents legally establish their
preferences - before problems occur.
Guide to Long-term Care
AARP's Guide to Long-term Care can help you and your parents plan ahead to
increase choices, make sound housing decisions, and plan for the cost of
long-term care.
What Does Long Term Care Cost?
Most long-term care is provided by family and friends. When people need outside
help, they find out that this can be very costly - and Medicare and private
health insurance don't pay for much.
Learning ahead of time about what services are available, what they cost and
how to pay for them can increase choices.
Long-term Care Insurance
This insurance helps pay for services beyond medical and nursing care. AARP
helps you think through the pros and cons of long-term care insurance, the
right time to buy a policy, and key issues and features to consider when making
a decision.
Valuing the Invaluable: A New Look at the Economic Value
of Family Caregiving
Every day, millions of Americans provide unpaid help to adult family members
and friends who can no longer perform daily tasks. This AARP report found that
contributions of family caregivers are the backbone of the nation's
long-term care system - with an estimated economic value of $350 billion in
2006.
Caring for Your Parents: The Complete AARP Guide
Caring for our parents as they age is a job most of us shoulder willingly, yet
with warring emotions. The shifting dynamic of the parent-child relationship
can spark feelings for which we are unprepared.
Caring for Your Parents offers a practical road map through that
complex emotional terrain.
Share Your Thoughts
Have you taken your parents’ care into account in your financial planning?