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

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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

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.

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.

With parents in nursing homes and problems that go with it, my husband and I bought this book, and plan to pass it around to all our children to read. The more we know at middle age, the better off we and our children will be later on.

This book gives you a tremendous amount of confidence to have the tough conversations with your family. A must buy!

My siblings and I are just starting the process of helping our mother find a home where she is comfortable, and we are certain she is getting the help she is increasingly needing. This book had many suggestions that are not pertinent to our situation at the present time, but may be in the future, plus it gave us many ideas of what to look for, what to ask, where to get needed info and ideas, etc. After reading it myself I'd planned on passing it on to my siblings for them to read, but ended up ordering extra copies for them, since I want to hang onto my own for my personal use in planning my own future.

allowed me to have conversations been trying to have for 30 yr with parents in late 80's