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• Article - How to Talk to Your Elderly Parents

  How to Talk to Your Elderly Parents. Tips on talking to your elderly parents to help you avoid conflicts and misunderstandings.

• Article - How to Approach Your Parents With Concerns About Their Driving Ability

  Giving up a driver's license is likely to be difficult for elderly parents. Learn how to approach and talk to elderly parents about driving safety.

• Article - How to Communicate Better When Your Parent Has Early-Stage Alzheimer's or Dementia

  How to better communicate when your parent has early stage Alzheimer's or dementia. Keep these simple Alzheimer's communication techniques in mind.

• Article - When One Parent Is Caring for the Other

  If one of your parents is caring for the other, your involvement is essential to help your healthy parent avoid burnout.

Questions & Answers

• Question - How do we deal with my father who has heart failure who wants to travel and expects only family to care for him?

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• Question - How can my brother and I convince my aging parents to move closer to us?

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• Question - How do I get my mother to update her trust and power of attorney?

  To help overcome your mom's resistance about updating her estate planning documents, you may need to heed why she feels a roadblock.

• Question - How can I get my father to tell the doctor how bad his pain is?

  How to manage your parent's cancer pain by improving communication with the doctor about his pain and pain treatment.

• Question - How can I get my parents to simplify their affairs before something happens?

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• Question - How can I get my father to join a Parkinson's disease support group?

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• Question - How can I convince my mother that it's time to make the move to an assisted living facility?

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• Question - How can I get my parent's doctor to explain his cancer treatment in a way I can understand?

  When you're having trouble understanding your parent's doctor or oncologist, try these communication tricks to get her to explain more clearly.

• Question - How can I get my father removed from scam "sweepstakes" mailing lists?

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• Question - How do we help my mom, who has moved into an assisted living facility, "say goodbye" to her old home?

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• Question - How do I advise my mother that it is time to move to an assisted living facility?

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• Question - My father has dementia and I'm wondering, when is the best time to discuss enforcement of power of attorney?

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• Question - My grandmother is suffering from delusions, how do I convince her to see a doctor?

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• Question - How can I convince my mother to move to a safer place near me?

  My mother isn't safe in her home, but won't consider moving.

• Question - What do I do when my parent's doctor tells me something important and suggests that I not tell my parent?

  It can be very uncomfortable when you receive information from your parent's doctor that your parent doesn't have. Here's how to handle this difficult situation.

• Question - How have you handled persuading your loved one to remain in the nursing home when he or she unreasonably thinks he or she is ready to go home?

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• Question - How do I get mom to bed at a reasonable time?

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• Question - How do I talk to my elderly father about dying?

  To get guidance about how to talk with a parent about dying, pay attention to what you learned about his or her comfort level during past conversations.

• Question - How do I address the use of the stove with my mother?

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• Question - When is it time for assisted living?

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• Question - How do you explain to someone that they are going into respite care for 1 week and then permanently into a nursing home?

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• Question - Should I sit in on my dad's medical appointments to make sure he discusses all issues he's having?

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• Question - How can I help my father, who is a hoarder, clear out his house so that it is not a hazard?

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• Question - How do I talk to my father about the mess he makes in the bathroom when he urinates?

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• Question - How can I get my mother to go for another Alzheimer's evaluation?

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• Question - How can I help convince my mother that it's time to move into a retirement community?

  My father is ready to move into a retirement community, but my mother refuses. My father can't take care of her anymore, but What can I do?

• Question - My ill mother refuses to live with us, what can be done?

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• Question - Any suggestions for talking to my father, who has Alzheimer's, about his finances?

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• Question - Could this 'trouble" be related to his vision or could dementia be setting in?

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• Question - My mother is acting insecure; how can I help her and maintain my own marriage?

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• Question - What can I do to encourage my elderly parent to use a walker or cane?

  Ideas to encourage your parent to use a walker or cane

• Question - What can I do to get my mom to take her diabetes pills, which she doesn't think are keeping her blood sugar in check?

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