Caregiving

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• 10 Things I wish I had known about caregiving
• Adult day care
• Anticipate and manage impacts on your personal life
• Assisted living facilities
• Avoid dehydration
• Avoid delayed decisions and discord
• Avoid feeling alone, isolated, or incapable
• Balance care responsibilities
• Caring for an older adult with dementia
• Caring for an older adult with depression
• Caring for an older adult with kidney disease
• Caring for an older adult with limited mobility
• Choosing a health care option
• Coordinate appointments, care, and follow up
• Create a care plan
• Deal with caregiver burnout
• Deal with caregiver depression
• Find trusted sources of help
• Get help and support
• Having the elder abuse talk
• Health monitoring devices
• Investigate long-term care options
• Join a caregiver community
• Keep track of medical records
• Maintain medical equipment
• Making the home environment safe for older adults
• Manage providers and therapies
• Manage resistance to care
• Memory care
• Minimize family confusion, disagreements, and frustration
• Normal memory loss versus dementia
• Overview of home health assistance
• Paying for long-term care
• Preventing elder abuse
• Provide care while ensuring dignity
• Skilled nursing facilities (nursing homes)
• Take care of yourself emotionally
• Take care of yourself physically
• Types of elder abuse
• What to do if elder abuse occurs

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Financial

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• Assisted living facilities
• Dealing with financial challenges
• Financial advisors
• Getting financial assistance
• Getting help from a financial expert
• Getting out of debt
• Having the elder fraud talk
• Having the long-term care talk
• Living arrangements
• Long-term care planning
• Mortgages
• Moving
• Online financial services
• Overview of elder fraud
• Overview of financial planning
• Paying for long-term care
• Preventing elder fraud
• Saving for retirement
• Senior discounts
• Stretching your money
• What to do if elder fraud occurs

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Health

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• Normal memory loss versus dementia

Legal

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• Advance directives
• Asset protection trust
• Assets and liabilities
• Basic legal documents
• Charitable trust
• Communicating with an older adult about their wishes
• Creating legal documents
• Decisions related to aging and the end of life
• Do Not Resuscitate and Do Not Intubate orders
• Durable power of attorney
• Engaging an attorney
• Engaging the right attorney or online service
• Estate and inheritance taxes
• Estate Plan
• Financial plans versus estate plans
• Gift trust
• Guardianship
• Health care documents
• HIPAA authorization for medical records
• Letter of last instruction
• Life insurance trust
• Living wills
• Medical power of attorney
• Overview of estate plans
• Overview of health care documents
• Overview of legal documents
• Overview of trusts
• Portable medical orders (POLST)
• Protecting assets from mishandling
• Protecting assets from taxes and fees
• Revocable living trust
• Special needs trust
• Trusts
• Using an online service
• Will and testament

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Local Services

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• Grocery and takeout delivery services
• Meal delivery services

Safety

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• Arranging for and conducting a formal driving assessment
• Cognitive impairment, dementia, and driving
• Curtailing unsafe driving habits
• Discussing driving with an older adult
• Factors that contribute to unsafe driving
• Getting help with an unsafe driver
• Having the elder abuse talk
• Having the elder fraud talk
• Modifying driving habits of older adults
• Physically limiting vehicle access for unsafe drivers
• Preventing elder abuse
• Preventing elder fraud
• Reviewing driving regulations and legal risks
• Transportation
• Types of elder abuse
• Unsafe driving warning signs
• What to do if elder abuse occurs
• What to do if elder fraud occurs

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Social

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Uncategorized

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