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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• A Social Worker Gives Good Advice for Taking Care of Aging Parents Social worker Dawn Mathews has an info- packed article about caring for your aging parents. Because of her training, Dawn has been able to spot many aging problems involving her 81-year-old Dad early. She tells about such details that we should be on the look-out for such eating properly and......
• Health Care Plan: How Will It Affect Our Aging Parents? Health care plan: how will it affect our aging parents?  Or, how will it affect us? Frankly, we don't know yet.  What we do know is it will be expensive.  Most likely taxes will  go up, probably on the state level. But here's one of the most disturbing situations some......
• When It's Time to Take the Car Away from An Aging Parent Losing the car is viewed as  the final end of independence to an aging senior.It is the end of being able to get out and interact socially as well as being able to take care of one's own needs.Taking your parent's car keys away is listed as one of the most traumatic......
• Finances and Your Aging Parents Image via Wikipedia Finances is a subject you may not want to discuss with your aging parents.  However, there are many issues you need to be thinking about before a crisis hits your family.  You need to know about your parents' bills and investments as well as helping them......
• Will You Go Broke Caring for Aging Parents? Will You Go Broke Caring for Aging Parents? According to the New York times 30 per cent of adult children spend money on their parents. In these difficult times, that's money that could have been used for living expenses, college education, etc. What's the answer? I don't think there is......

• Planning your Budget One of the greatest ways that you can get a handle on your finances and overcome your debt to build wealth is to build a personal budget. There is no single one size fits all answer to budgeting because everyone has unique needs and circumstances when it comes to generating......
• Why your stock broker will always be richer than you. I'm reading Bull! by Maggie MaharIt follows the boom and bust cycle of the stock market between 1982 and 2004. Here's an interesting tidbit I thought I'd share with you.Most stock brokers and mutual fund managers don't get paid to take risks. They get paid to beat the index average.......
• Retire to a Second Career Different circumstances and goals motivate baby boomers toward different types of "retirements." Some have just had it with work, period. Others are OK with what they do for a living but are looking to gradually "phase out" of a full-time career. Still others are dissatisfied with a long-time job or......
• 5 Ways to Keep Stucco Looking Fresh When it comes to exteriors for your home, stucco is one of the best to have. It's insulating, easy to take care of and compared to other materials, very cost effective. However, after a few months in some areas or years, it can tend to look a bit dingy. Here......
• Workplace and Employment Age Discrimination and the Baby Boomer With the epidemic of layoffs, downsizing, and outright job terminations, age discrimination by employers in the workplace has to be on the minds of all baby boomers.  We know (or will experience) how hard it is for someone over the age of 50 to find a new job after losing......