Organizing

• Article - Sorting the Stuff: A Step-by-Step Guide to Organizing Your Parent's Move (Without Getting Disowned)

  Read these six easy steps to learn how to help your parent take stock of a lifetime's worth of belongings before moving to a new home.

• Article - How to Ask for Help With Cancer Care Giving

  Get support you can use in caring for a parent with cancer with this guide to how to ask for assistance and ways to help you may not have thought of.

• Article - Independent Living: A Beginner's Guide

  Independent Living: A Beginner's Guide. Eight steps to help your aging parents make independent living a reality.

• Article - How to Get the Help You'll Need to Care for Your Parent With Cancer

  Comprehensive information on getting help when caring for a parent with cancer. Related information is available in the cancer section of Caring.com.

• Article - 12 Ways to Cope with "Chemo Brain"

  Strategies for helping your parent who's being treated for cancer with issues of memory, concentration, and organization.

Blog Posts

• Blog Post - My mother has asked not to be resuscitated if she has a medical crisis, but my siblings disagree on what constitutes a medical crisis.

  Before she showed signs of dementia, my mother decided...

• Blog Post - A Big Butt May Keep Diabetes at Bay

  New research suggests that body fat found around the buttocks may help reduce the risk of developing type 2 diabetes.

• Blog Post - Aging Smokers: Who's Going to Get Lung Cancer?

  It's a medical fact that smokers are at much greater risk for lung cancer than nonsmokers, but it's long been a mystery why some smokers remain cancer free. New research breakthroughs provide answers about lung cancer risk and diagnosis.

• Blog Post - Should You Put Type 2 Diabetes to the Test?

  Researchers are asking whether daily self-monitoring is worth the effort and expense.

• Blog Post - Mom Far Away? Cool Gift Ideas, and Yes, There's Still Time!

  Mother's Day ideas for a mom who lives far away.

• Blog Post - Wanted: Companionship for a Dad with Diabetes

  How to find senior companionship for your aging and ailing parent.

Questions & Answers

• Question - How can I convince my pack-rat mother, whom I'm moving into a smaller apartment, to let go of all her junk?

  My mother is a pack rat. I need to move her into an apartment but she refuses to throw anything away. How do I convince her to let go of all her junk?

• Question - When is the right time to call in hospice?

  Hospice care is generally reserved for those who are diagnosed to be near death. But other options for help with care may be available.

• Question - Is there any software available to help track and organize yearly costs for a guardian taking care of a parent?

  The biggest challenge in tracking guardianship expenses may be to focus on the categories to include.

• Question - Is there a resource to find a nurse who will travel to rural areas?

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• Question - How do I contact meals on wheels?

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• Question - Should my mom's house remain unchanged even though she has memory problems?

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• Question - Is there a financial planner (book) one could purchase for...

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• Question - my husband doesnt understand severe fibromyalgia and how my...

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• Question - How do we help my brother-in-law, who is receiving chemo and radiation, get ready to leave the house a little quicker?

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• Question - I don't think my 78-year-old mother has dementia, so why does she get sundown syndrome?

  This question has been answered by a Caring.com Expert

• Question - How can I get help for my ill sister, who doesn't have any family nearby?

  How can I find care for my sister, who is ill and on her own, with no family members nearby to give her a hand?

• Question - What is my first step in administering my mother's will?

  The first step is usually the hardest: Finding and organizing the property your mothe owned at her death.

• Question - How can I find agencies or companies that provide in-home care in my area?

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

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• Question - Why won't my parents and their friends use the word Alzheimer's?

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• Question - How can we protect our elderly mother from being taken advantage of?

  If you're sure that it's money and not love that is prompting an alleged suitor to call on your mother, act quickly to avoid financial scamming.

• Question - How can I help my dad, who is losing his vision from macular degeneration?

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• Question - How can someone become a caregiver?

  How can someone become a caregiver?

• Question - Does anyone know the approximate cost of chemo treatment for non-hodgkins lymphoma?

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• Question - What is my mother's legal obligation to pay donation pledges she has given over the phone?

  There are some ways to cut back on hectoring calls from charitable organizations--and guidelines about whether a person must make good on pledges.

• Question - How does property not covered by a trust get divided?

  When there is property not covered by a living trust, the law looks to other documents first to determine who is entitled to take it.

• Question - Could my father's loud snoring be caused by a medical problem?

  Loud snoring may indicate a medical problem like sleep apnea. Loud snoring could also be caused by obesity, alcohol, smoking, and medications.

• Question - How do I get help, such as someone to assist with housework, for a relative undergoing cancer treatment that also lives alone?

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• Question - Help paying for chemo if you don't qualify for medicare?

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• Question - Why do elderly women contract numerous urinary tract infections?

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• Question - Answer To When To Call Hospice Question

  Hospice care is generally reserved for those who are diagnosed to be near death. But other help with care may be available if your parent doesn't qualify for hospice.

• Question - How can I keep my father from overexerting himself after his heart attack?

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• Question - How do I enroll a terminal cancer patient in hospice?

  Finding hospice services and learning their requirements is easy. Getting the best fit might take a little more work.

• Question - Do hip protectors really work to prevent fractures?

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• Question - How Can I Convince my Brother Not to Leave His Nursing Home?

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• Question - How can I convince my mother that she needs an assistant to run errands instead of expecting me to do it when I live two hours away?

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• Question - Is it better to leave my property by will or living trust?

  First evaluate the property you own that may pass to others automatically at your death; then look at the pros and cons of wills and living trusts.

• Question - What short-term in-house care options when caregivers need to go out of town?

  Some guidance for those seeking temporary in-house care for their aging parent.

• Question - Can my parent give durable power of attorney for healthcare to one child, and durable power of attorney for finance to another?

  My brother thinks my parents should give durable power of attorney for healthcare to one sibling and durable power of attorney for finance to another.

• Question - Where do I go to find eligibility rules for Medicare home care?

  Medicare home health care rules are complicated. They are explained in a Medicare publication, and help is available ffrom your local SHIP office.

• Question - How do I find in-home care for my father?

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• Question - How do I keep my spirits high when caregiving in a challenging situation?

  Caring for mother is taking over my life. Is there anyway to make things easier?

• Question - How can I get my brother to help with Alzheimer's care?

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Tips & Reflections

• Tip - Wheelchair Reality Check

  If you're working on making your parents' home more...

• Tip - Map the Move

  When organizing for a move, label anything that's going...

• Tip - parent with dementia

  After caring for two elderly parents for several...