6. Put together a Team: Our Parent Care Specialist training teaches our folks how to assemble a team of professionals around them like attorneys, geriatric case managers, investment managers, insurance, tax and accounting, care companion services, etc. to manage the care giving process and get the best help possible. You're going to need a team because of the complexities of HIPAA and Privacy.
7. Understand that you can do this: Care giving for parents is like having a new born baby but in reverse. As a baby grows older it gets more and more independent. As a parent grows older, they get more and more dependent as a rule. Just love your parents like they loved you and you'll be fine. Infancy and old age don't last forever and when you look back you'll realize that it went faster than you ever imagined and didn't inconvenience you as much as you thought.
It's not impossible, this care giving thing. Just demanding, challenging, and exciting. Things you're already used to.
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