{"product_id":"elderly-parents-affairs-organizer-workbook","title":"Helping Your Aging Parents Get Their Affairs In Order","description":"\u003ch3\u003eIf something happened to your parent tomorrow, would you know where to start?\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMost adult children don't find out what they don't know until there's a crisis — and then they're searching a parent's house for a will, guessing at passwords, and calling companies that won't talk to them. This is the fill-in organizer that fixes that ahead of time. It's written to you, the adult son or daughter, so you and your aging or elderly parent can complete it together, one conversation at a time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe hard part isn't the paperwork — it's the asking. This is the list of what to find out, in the order it's least awkward to raise, so you're both looking at a page instead of at each other.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThree printed openers, for starting the conversation cold.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe questions already written, in the order they're easiest to ask.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTheir people, professionals, and where the documents live.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAccounts, bills and autopay — and where the passwords are kept.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFour emergency quick-sheets, for the call that comes first.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eQuestions people ask\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWho fills this out — me or my parent?\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cbr\u003eBoth, together. The book is written to you, the adult child, with prompts designed to make a sometimes-awkward conversation easier. You and your aging or elderly parent complete it at your own pace; nothing has to be done in one sitting.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eI have two living parents — do I need two books?\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cbr\u003eNo. One book covers both. Part 6 is a complete second record set — fourteen more pages with their own key people, legal documents, bank and investment accounts, insurance, bills, property, devices, medical snapshot, and care wishes. Banks, insurers, and Social Security treat your parents as two entirely separate files, so keeping their papers apart from the start saves untangling them later, and after a first death the second set is the one you'll use most.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDoes it cover paying for long-term care?\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cbr\u003eYes. Medicare generally does not pay for long-term custodial care — the day-to-day help with bathing, dressing, and eating that most families actually need — and it doesn't cover assisted living rent or adult day care either. The book gives you a checklist of those gaps, a worksheet for the monthly difference between what care costs where your parent lives and what comes in each month, a timeline page for the Medicaid look-back (commonly five years, but it varies by state and does change, so confirm with your state's Medicaid office), and tour sheets you fill in at the facility rather than that evening. It records your numbers; it isn't financial or legal advice.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePaperback Book · 80-page Fill-In Organizer\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eEducational information only — not legal, financial, medical, or tax advice.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Retirement In Order","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44279962304615,"sku":"xx97m9","price":25.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0680\/7312\/8039\/files\/helping-aging-parents-thumb.png?v=1788637807","url":"https:\/\/shop.retirementinorder.com\/products\/elderly-parents-affairs-organizer-workbook","provider":"Retirement In Order","version":"1.0","type":"link"}