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How to Care for Your Elderly Parents
Our parents take care of us, but as they get older, they will need assistance with activities of daily living such as personal hygiene, meal preparation, and medication management. However, some people often don’t have time to support their elderly parents and use retirement facilities to ensure the best possible care. Sometimes this is a request by parents who don’t want to burden their children, so they will ask to live in a retirement community. But some children want to take care of their elderly and give back to their parents for taking care of them for most of their lives. So if you’re thinking about caring for your elderly…
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Life Changes In A Split Second
I debated a long time with this post. First, just whether to even write it or not. But, in the almost 8 years I’ve been writing Peanut Butter and Whine, it’s been an ever-changing blog. I’ve always written what was on my mind (ha, or what’s left of it anyway!) and what’s happening in my life. So, today you get the Cliff Notes version. I explain more, add my thoughts and my new understanding of well……. basically how bad it sucks to get old. On Friday, December 22 at 6:00 pm I went to my Mom’s granny flat at the back of our house to check on her as is…
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The Mamas and the Papas: Will Your Parents Become a Burden or a Boon?
No one relishes the thought of watching their parents age, or those final days of their lives in which tough emotional, mental, and financial decisions have to be made. The worry is they will be a burden. But there is a huge misunderstanding when it comes to the financial wherewithal of moms and dads all across the US: most Millennial and Gen X children are fearful their parents don’t have enough to retire on, enough to live on if they need to be placed in assisted care, or even enough to pay for their funeral or hospice care if needed. Retirement The (albeit morbid) good news is that by and…
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Helping Your Parents in Poor Health
Nobody likes to watch their parents get older; the people who have raised you for your entire life seem so invincible. However, ageing is an inevitable part of human existence, and it could be that now is the time to take care of those who dedicated their lives to taking care of you. Even if their illnesses doesn’t seem serious, it might be worth making sure your parents’ affairs are in order, and here are some tips on how to begin. Update their Will(s) Now is the best time to check that their wills have been updated – they could have been written years ago, before marriages or grandchildren came…
