The Parent Care Conversation: Six Strategies for Dealing with the Emotional and FinancialChallenges of AgingParents [Paperback]

Dan Taylor (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 29, 2006

A comprehensive and empathetic program for addressing, planning, and putting into effect long-term elder care

Long -term care for aging parents is a sensitive, often difficult, but ultimately inevitable issue with which all of us will have to cope sooner or later. The Parent Care Conversation offers a step-by-step approach for families to follow that will enable them to develop workable plans of action. By first addressing the emotional aspects of long-term care that take into account the parents' feelings and wishes, then integrating the practical and financial components, this book will open the door for a critical exchange of information and honest discussion among adult children and their aging parents that has long been the major roadblock to successful elder care. Filled with factual information, useful tips, real-life stories, and practical exercises, The Parent Care Conversation provides a proactive and collaborative solution to the long-term care issues that eventually everyone must face.

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About the Author

Dan Taylor is the creator of the Parent Care Solution, a unique process for planning for the long-term care of aging parents without financially or emotionally destroying the family. He is also the founder of the Parent Care Institute, an advocacy group active on both state and federal levels to bring awareness and changes to the topic of elder care.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 18 and up
  
• Paperback: 272 pages
• Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics); First edition (August 29, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0143037641
• ISBN-13: 978-0143037644
• Product Dimensions: 8 x 5.5 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #134,223 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #32 in Books > Parenting & Relationships > Family Relationships > Grandparenting
  • #71 in Books > Parenting & Relationships > Aging Parents
  • #80 in Books > Parenting & Relationships > Family Relationships > Parent & Adult Child

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Must for Financial Advisors, March 1, 2008

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Lewis J. Walker "Financial Planner" (Norcross, GA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Parent Care Conversation: Six Strategies for Dealing with the Emotional and FinancialChallenges of AgingParents (Paperback)

As a financial planner, boomers increasingly were asking for help with their elderly parents. I buy Dan Taylor's book by the case and give them to clients as part of the planning process. Not only is the book invaluable to boomers, it is useful when planning for WOOFs (well off older folks)to help them frame ideas to give their grown children clarity as to their wishes.

Lewis J. Walker, CFP, CIMC, CRC, PCS

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best Book on Caring for your Elderly Parents that I've Read, March 28, 2007

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Pete (Columbia, MD) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Parent Care Conversation: Six Strategies for Dealing with the Emotional and FinancialChallenges of AgingParents (Paperback)

In clear prose, Dan Taylor guides you through how to talk to your elderly parents and help plan for their future to maximize indpendent living. I took voluminous notes and rank it as the best book of its type and I have read at least 20 others.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great tool for those who need to have conversations between generations, January 22, 2007

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Barbara Jordan "Rev. Barb" (Wisconsin) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Parent Care Conversation: Six Strategies for Dealing with the Emotional and FinancialChallenges of AgingParents (Paperback)

As a pastor, I am always searching for resources that will stimulate conversations between generations, particularly in dealing with end of life issues. Taylor's book is an excellent tool for adult children to begin needed talks with aging parents. Plus it works in the opposite direction--a tool for aging parents to express their own concerns as they face the many unknowns of their future.