Here’s an Amazing New Site on Caring for Aging Parents
The first order of the day is to pass along some helpful information. If you are a baby boomer with aging parents, check out Caring.com. When I look at sites like these, I find they are often rehashes of the same old stuff.
This one seems to be different. This brand-new site (launched just this week) is extremely user-friendly, covering just about anything one needs to know about caring for aging parents. For example, here’s an amazingly innovative piece on 8 Gadgets That Could Help Keep Your Parents Living at Home. The article features all kinds of devices I’ve never heard of. Really cool.
The site also includes stuff on Monitoring Your Parents’ Finances, Selling Your Parents’ Home, Dividing Caregiving Tasks, Transportation, Hiring In-Home Care and tons of other topics.
November 20th, 2007 at 11:40 am
Wow, where have I been. I knew I was missing something. I am dealing with this issue, too – big time. Thanks!
November 20th, 2007 at 11:50 am
Jeff, glad you like this site. It’s great. It will be in the media a lot this week as it just launched yesterday.
November 20th, 2007 at 1:17 pm
Hi Rhea,
Thanks for visiting my blog. Your web is for me, I love this post. I will be back for a longer visit.
Judy
November 20th, 2007 at 3:52 pm
Hattie, were you familiar with the site before reading about it here? Curious.
November 20th, 2007 at 4:09 pm
This site is comprehensive and really helpful. Our journey with my mother in law is just about over, but we have learned so many things.
Of course we have made a ton of mistakes. The main one was to encourage her to become dependent on us rather than finding her a good care facility where she could make attachments to her peers and have a nice social life with them.
She had a horror of such places, but I think that a home for the elderly would have fit her perfectly. I myself would have no fear of living in such a facility if it were reasonably well run and had compassionate staff.
We overvalue family in these matters, but often family is just the default function when other options fail or when old people fear change.
I know mine is not a common opinion, because we valorize the notion of independence in one’s own home with help from one’s family, but I don’t think it worked all that well for us.
November 21st, 2007 at 11:53 pm
Thanks, will check it out. I sounds as if it will be really helpful for my mother-in-law’s situation.