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Risher, Mr. Tobias

 
9798997466343: Before the Crisis: The Adult Child’s Guide to Aging Parents

Synopsis

Most families do not become caregiving families in a single moment. The crisis usually starts long before the emergency.

A parent needs help getting to an appointment. A bill becomes confusing. Someone has to find an important document. A hospital asks questions nobody expected to answer. Gradually, an adult child realizes how much of a parent's life depends on information, routines, decisions, and relationships that only the parent fully understands.

Before the Crisis is a practical guide for adult children who want to understand those things while there is still time to ask.

Tobias Risher draws from his own experiences caring for his mother and navigating healthcare, family estates, benefits, authority, and the responsibilities that begin shifting as parents age. The book explains how families can prepare without taking over, protect independence while adding support, understand who can legally act, keep medical and financial information from becoming disconnected, recognize when living at home is becoming harder, prepare for hospitalization, protect parents from scams, and preserve the relationships that caregiving is supposed to protect.

This is not a book about controlling your parents or planning their deaths. It is about being ready while they can still participate in the decisions.

Because when an emergency arrives, there is a profound difference between asking and guessing

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