Whats the best way to approach other family members about long-term care for aging parents?
As far as talking among other family members, when you are thinking that it may be time to move your parents into some sort of supervised setting, I think just talking openly and probably doing it in an organized fashion is best. Ideas such as setting up a time for a teleconference or if you all live locally, a family meeting of some kind is the best way to do it. Even though you definitely want your parent, or parents to be part of the decision making process, I do think sometimes it is sort of like an intervention. So you want to maybe get together beforehand and just get all your ducks in a row, figure out what you need to say and maybe even what you plan to do if they don’t want to go along with it. It is just depending on how unsafe you feel they are. I think it is just good to speak openly, honestly and expect a certain amount of dissent. People don’t always agree and it is a very emotional and difficult decision when you are talking about putting your parents into an assisted li
