Baby Boomers Realism

Awhile ago, one of our friends was faced with a realism that most baby boomers will have to face sometime in their life - caregiver to aging parents.
There are some things a person can do to make the "new" role easier.
Perhaps one of the important things is gaining access to personal, medical, legal, and financial information. The following tips can be used as a guideline to relieve some of the stress tthat comes with the territory:

1. Gather personal, medical, legal and financial information and keep it in one location.
2. Give copies to all individuals who may participate as a caregiver.
3. For confidential information, simply write in the contact person and phone number who has the information, such as will/last testament or banking information.
4. Inform your parents how you will safe guard their confidential information to protect them from identity theft.
5. Explain to your aging parent that participation in gathering this vital information while they are healthy is a gift to you (as the adult child) since you will be the one to handle an emergency when it arrives.

If you can begin on some of the things above, sooner rather than later your "new" role will that much easier. Good Luck.

Quote of the Day:

"If you don't look out for others, who's gonna look out for you?"

Whoopi Goldberg