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An E-Newsletter for Americans caring for parents from overseas

Parenting Your Parents, an occasional E-Newsletter, is a free resource for children caring for aging parents in the U.S. from abroad. Each issue focuses on a topic that can provide guidance to expat children caring for their aging parents in the U.S. Are you wrestling with a particular parent care challenge?

Binocular Vision founder and President, Marcia Johnson, invites your suggestions for future topics. marcia@binocvision.com

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PAST ISSUES 2008 - 2009 — Marcia's Parent Care Pick

Issue 3

5-Step Long Distance Care Strategy

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1. Identify tasks

    • Involve your parents

    • Get organized

    • Parent Care Crisis Kit. Assemble and keep with you at all times.

    • Schedule periodic visits with parents to see “what’s going on”.

    • Be accessible to those who may need to reach you.

    • Establish a local support network.
    • Healthcare
  • - Assemble contact information for your parent’s healthcare professionals and compile parent’s healthcare information. 
  • - Health insurance
  • - Get acquainted with parent's primary care physician.
  • - Aim to have all prescriptions filled at one pharmacy.
    • Finance – Information and Contacts
    • Legal – Information and Contacts

2. Consider “skill sets”-

Yours and individuals in your family and friends network

3. Delegate

Clarify roles and obtain agreement to fulfill tasks

4. Develop a communication plan

5. Review and revise as circumstances change

 

TO VIEW RESOURCES to support your plan go to page 4 of
"5-Step Long Distance Care Strategy" PDF

    • Record keeping tools
    • Books about parent communication & parent care


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