The ABC News website has a lot of very valuable resources for anyone taking care of the elderly.

First Steps for Caregivers

News You Can Use When Researching Elder Care

20 Practical Tips for Finding the Best Residential Care for Your Relative

Planning Ahead-Consumer Guides to Nursing and Assisted Living Facilities

Elder Care Cost Calculator

Keep a Job While Caring for Older Relative

There are also many more subjects in ABC's Kitchen Table series such as Sandwich Generation Faces Massive Stress in Caring for Aging Parents and Kids

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• Elder Care Tips for Nutrition, Therapy Pets Elder care is the main issue many of us are dealing with as we care give.  It is difficult to make sure our aging parents are eating properly as they grow older and many foods simply don't appeal to them any more.  Here is a good article about elder care......
• Are You Stressed Out Taking Care of Your Aging Parents? Are You Stressed Out Taking Care of Your Aging Parents? You're not alone, according to Dr. Tamara Greenburg. She points out baby boomers are the first generation to be taking care of a big population of elderly parents. People are living much longer these days and they need  more care. We......
• 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......
• Caring for Aging Parents Brings On Challenges Caring for aging parents has never been easy, but Holly and Rick Benson do double duty. They care for both their aging fathers in their home. Elder care is round the clock just like childcare.  When the Bensons left for a quick meal at a nearby restaurant, it was almost......
• Home Health Care to Replace Many Nursing Homes? Forbes has an interesting post on home health care and the future of taking care of the elderly in their own homes. I believe this is a coming trend, mainly because it will be too expensive to care for our aging parents in hospitals or nursing homes. High tech will......

• Property Management and Customer Care Property management and customer service go hand in hand. With the TransGlobe Property Management Team of Canada, that is just what you will get...top rate, high quality staff that are there to ensure that all of your rental needs are met. And should you be the owner of a building,......
• Special Needs Kids: Tips for Choosing a Pediatric Home Care Agency It is a stressful time for parents of a child with special needs when the child has been ill, hospitalized, or finally coming home for the very first time. The nurse case manager may be a wealth of information but it can also be very overwhelming for parents. Here are......
• Long Term Care Insurance: Key Policy Provisions Mrs. GoTo and I received our long term care insurance policies last week.  The policy was part of a large portfolio of documents that the agent delivered to me.  I immediately opened up the policy document to review what I consider to be the key provisions.  I thought I would share......
• Finding Out Your Parents Financial Situtation Can Be Stressful. Let me just tell you that sometimes finding things out about your parents is not all candy and roses. I mean, I enjoy learning about where my parents went on vacation before they got married, or how they met, or any number of other interesting tidbits that I have learned......
• How and Why I Bought Long Term Care Insurance Mrs. GoTo and I recently bought long-term care policies for ourselves.  I actually did it through my employer although the policies are such that we can take them with us. This post discusses the analysis and logic we considered in making this purchase. Long-Term Care Insurance is for All Boomers......