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Boomers and Parents

A recent AARP survey found a very high percentage of older-generation parents haven’t talked with their boomer-aged children about the parents’ ability to live independently. The group offers boomers the following tips to begin the discussion:

-- Talk to your parents about planning for the future before a problem or crisis arises and continue talking about independent living issues over time.
-- Use such natural conversation starters as your parents expressing their concerns, the experience of your or your parents’ older friends, events in your parents lives or newspaper reports, magazine articles and the like.
-- Focus on such major issues as housing, activities of daily living, health care, transportation, money and insurance. Let the discussion be guided by your parents’ concerns and needs, not your own opinions.
-- Anticipate normal resistance to these conversations. If a parent is reluctant to talk, try again later. If a parent’s health or safety is in immediate jeopardy, take stronger measures.
-- Accept your parents’ right to make their own life choices even if you don’t agree with those choices.
Source: AARP

Angie Shull
Seniors Real Estate Specialist
REMAX Property Centre
1134 W. Granada Blvd.
Ormond Beach, FL 32174
386-295-9605

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