How to Talk About Aging to Your Parents

I find that most families wait for a crisis to occur before they talk about aging and the possibilites of moving or hiring care for the home. AARP recently conducted a survey that shows a high percentage of adults have not yet talked to their parents about aging.

Here are the facts:

A recent survey by AARP found that nearly 70 percent of adult children have not talked to their parents about issues related to aging. Some children avoid this most intimate of conversations because they believe their parents don’t want to talk. Others think they know what their parents want. And some simply don’t want to face the very real truth that if you are lucky enough to have parents who live well into their senior years, chances are good that disease, injury, frailty, even loneliness, will affect a parent’s well-being.

It is so important to talk to your loved ones before you are stuck in a really hard place. I am sure if you have been through a rough situation you can relate.

Don’t be afraid to talk about the inevitable aging process.