Caregiving As Your Parents Age is presented in five easy-to-understand parts. Seeing Aging Through Your Parent's Eyes gives you a solid understanding of common physical problems, heart attacks, brain attacks, cancer and Alzheimer's. You'll learn what to look for, when to act and what to do. Every part is chock full of excellent web sites and resources. This book was previously published under the title, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Caring for Aging Parents.

You're then taken through “The World of Geriatric Health Care,“ showing you how to be a patient advocate in the hospital, how to track down the most appropriate care for your parents and how to keep up on their medications in the Pills & Parents chapter.

Your parent has a lot more options than either living at home or in a nursing home. In Understanding Your Parent's Options you are shown a wide range of living arrangements, how to make contacts, consumer tips and how to make living at home safe. You're even given tips on dealing with one very tough parent topic: when should they give up driving?

If your Mom or Dad comes to live with you, Caregiving: Coming to Live with You gives you all kinds of strategies on how to make it work for both of you. Learn about your rights at work, how to set up your home, where to ask for help and how to keep down the stress. Even if your parents don't live with you, check out the last chapter providing a frank discussion on hospice, advance directives, and how to talk to your parents about death and dying.

The final part, Financial and Legal Matters, navigates you through Medicare, Medicaid and the Veterans Administration. Get tips on managed care, Medi-gap polices, long term care insurance and how to keep a lid on out-of-pocket expenses. Learn the basics on living wills, durable power of attorney, wills, trusts, and guardianship. You're even shown how to have a productive conversation on these issues with your parents.

The Resource Directory is your very own yellow pages on elder care: the resource description includes all contact information and web site addresses -- all of which are hot linked here! And you're given a Nursing Home Navigator, a guide on what to ask and look for when you scope out a nursing home for your parents. You can also print out a copy of the Navigator on this web site.