This book is primarily for adults with aging parents who want to be informed or help them. The goal is to help you and your parents not make the mistakes that others have made for a tranformative experience in life.

You'll need to be prepared when events with your parents begin to happen (and when a decline begins, events can develop very quickly) so your life doesn't fall apart and you can actually transform the process into a healthy and happy experience for you and your family along with a sustained peace of mind after all is said and done. This book would also be helpful for your aging parent to read as well.

There are many things you'll need to know when you start helping your parents. How do you prepare yourself emotionally? Do they need a private fiduciary? What is hospice? How do you deal with siblings? What is the best financial plan for your parents? How do you approach your parents? Do you need a durable power of attorney? How do you settle the estate? All of these questions and further insights will be answered by someone who has lived it.

You can find information on just about any of these issues on their own, but without integrating them into a holistic approach, you are bound to have numerous unwanted surprises that could prove detrimental to your family's financial, physical, and emotional health. People falsely think decisions are typically made from having the right information. That perspective is missing the all-important aspect of how greatly emotions affect our decision-making process. If you just try to consume data to find a solution to make decisions, you are fully discarding the emotional influence on your decision-making. So this book is not intended to answer all of the details of every legal, financial, or emotional issue that comes up but instead shines a light on a path forward to give you perspective, insight, and real knowledge for the journey ahead.

As busy adults, we usually deal with issues that arise with our parents reactively. Often, it's because we are truly busy with our family, work, and friends, and we assume everything is fine unless we hear otherwise. We also know parents often don't like to trouble their kids about problems; you may not hear about things until you find out one of them is in the hospital. But if yourIf your parents are important to you, their loss will be deeply meaningful. If your parents' loss would be deeply meaningful to you, they must be important to you. And someone who is deeply meaningful to you really deserves your best efforts.