You’re focused on your own plans — your career, your home, your family — and never really thought that you’d also have to wonder whether your parents had plans of their own.

 

You assume they do.

 

Hopefully, by now, your parents have made some long-term care plans.

Unless you ask, how will you know?

 

This is where you begin — by planning to have “The Talk” with your parents.

Yes… that talk.  Similar to the one they once had with you about adulthood — the Birds and the Bees.

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Now it’s your turn to have a conversation with them about their elderhood.

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• What are their long-term care plans?

• Do they plan to remain in their home as they age?

• What happens if one of their situation changes?

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The reality is, your role as a future caregiver may already exist — whether it’s been discussed or not.

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“Son, one day you may have to make major decisions for your mother and me.”
“Daughter, you may one day be balancing your own family, your career — and caring for us, too.”

 

Make time for the talk.

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The goal of "The Talk" with your parent or loved one is simple:  

Listen.   Take notes.  This becomes the foundation — the starting point for what comes next.