Why Waiting to Discuss Care for Aging Parents Can Cause Problems With Care and Family Relationships

Waiting to discuss care for aging parents can cause significant and unexpected problems later within families. Delayed discussions can also negatively impact the health, financial, or legal planning needs of an elderly parent.

Aging parents may want to initiate conversations about their care, and adult children may not be prepared or interested in participating in these discussions.

Other times, adult children may have concerns, and aging parents delay discussions. When families don't talk early about caregiving needs, the likelihood of problems occurring later grows significantly.

Caregiving expert Pamela D. Wilson shares scenarios about family care situations and their impact on family relationships and care for aging parents.

Making decisions about care, who will provide care, and where aging parents will live can be emotionally challenging. As aging parents' health problems increase, their control over daily life decreases. In these instances, practical decisions may have to be made.

These may be considerations or decisions aging parents or adult children never thought they would have to make.

Pamela D Wilson is a caregiving expert who helps families discuss and plan for the care of aging parents to avoid problems later when considerations about life and health can become more challenging.

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