Our new aging parents community site has just launched and we're very excited about all the possibilities.

We have set up a forum where we can all go in and talk about those things that matter the most to us.

Let's face it. Taking care of our parents is not easy. In fact, the challenges are almost astronomical at times.

But together we can help each other.

Do you have a problem and you need help?

Come on over to the Aging Parents Authority Community Site and tell us about it.

Aging Parents Community Site

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Stress and the Elderly « Comfortkeeper’s Tips for Helping and … – Tags: adult children, aging, alzheimers, assisted living, caregiver, caregiving, companion, elderly, elders, finances, grandfather, grandmother, grief, head of house, help at home, helping, holiday, home care, home health aides, …

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Caregiving Journey Changed My Life | Caring & Sharing – For eleven years I pleaded with my elderly father to allow a caregiver to help him with my ailing mother, but after 55 years of loving each other – he adamantly insisted on taking care of her himself. Every caregiver I hired to help him …

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• 5 Stress Busting Strategies for Caregiving  Many of us never anticipated we'd be caregivers for our aging parents. Retirement was supposed to be fun; a time for hobbies, travel, golf, and doing what we dreamed of doing when we had enough time. But we're caregiving and we're going it out of love. However, are there......
• More Care Giver Problems You are experiencing more care giver problems. Each day and night bring new challenges. You can't rest. You can't relax. Your aging parents go to bed and you think you've got a few hours to yourself. Wrong. Your father falls out of bed at 1:30 AM and cuts his head.......
• Caring for Aging Parents from a Distance What is the hardest part about caring for your aging parents?Caring from a distance.As the holidays have ended, I can guess there are many people who have discovered something has changed about their  parents.  A visit home during Christmas is usually when such shocking discoveries are made.  Your mother has a......
• 3 Reasons Why Adult Day Care is Gaining Popularity  Yesterday we talked about some of the  most serious problems with nursing homes.  Since the government is cracking down on elder abuse in nursing homes are there other alternatives for your aging parents?Adult day care may be a good option if you want more supervision over your aging parents' care, but......
• Care Giver Urges Others to Ask for Help  Tom Begert-Clark  author of "Rosie John Doesn't Live Here Any More...One Family's Journey in Eldercare" has an open letter to all care givers.This is a thoughtful and insightful piece on the reality of care giving and covers the good points as well as the bad points.  Care giving is never easy,......

• Thanks To All My Guest Posters Last Week. Thanks to the following people who wrote guest posts for me while I was away on vacation. I hope to have some pictures up this week of our "yurting" trip! PaidTwice, who submitted Money Mistake Monday - Thoughtless Consolidation of Student Loans. Mike over at Four Pillars who submitted......
• Dealing With Elderly Parents (Part 2) Several weeks ago, I published an article about dealing with aging parents. In that article, I discussed treating parents with respect and understanding. In that article, I discussed the limitations that my parents are living with and there plans to move into a smaller home. Thankfully, they have found a......
• Social Networking - Fitness Style In the last couple of years, social networking sites have risen in Internet popularity faster than any other website type. First came MySpace and more recently, Facebook, which keeps getting a larger and larger community. Literally hundreds of other social networking sites exist. Wikipedia has a good sample of what's......
• Buy vs. Rent Adventures in Money Making, a favorite read of mine, brought a an article about renting to my attention. The article, Misconception: Renting is for suckers, gives a rule of thumb for when you'd be better off renting vs. buying a home. Immediately, I thought, I really have to read this.......
• Ultimate Holiday Gift - Help Your Parents Get Off Junk Mail Lists. Know what your parents could really use this year for a holiday gift? Help stemming the flow of junk mail and credit card offers that stuff up their mailbox day after day! There are a lot of people out there who just toss this stuff every day, not knowing that......