Welcome to Age and Stage, a new podcast for everybody, caring for or supporting their elderly, parents, relatives, friends, even neighbours. Do please get in touch with us:You can email the show:
[email protected] Record a voice note: https://www.speakpipe.com/ageandstageWhatsApp message – 07982 360113Please share Age & Stage with friends or those who would find this podcast useful. You can send them this link: https://pod.link/1798413657More information on all this and more at www.agespace.orgPlanning ahead - parenting your parents It's about paying a bit more attention when you go home, what's the fridge looking like? If things start to be out of their sell-by date, or there isn't much food in the fridge. And somebody who was always very house proud, it starts feeling different, smelling different. Is the post being opened? Questions to ask to start planning ahead for elderly careThere are three conversations to have with parents and relatives if you can:1.Where do you want to live? Do you want to stay in your own home? Would you down-size or would you come and live with me? 2. Thinking about if you're going to need care, what would you like? Would you have people living in? Do you want people who come in the day? Is there a care home locally that people recommend? 3. How might this be paid for? The demographics of an ageing populationIt's thought between seven and 10 million people provide unpaid care every week for an elderly parent or relative. Millions more in the next 10 years will be over 85 and all the issues this will bring. And the sandwich generation, teenage kids and a mother in her mid 80s with mobility issues and memory issues. Many of us have children later and our parents need help at the same time. Siblings and family dynamicsEvery family is different. Try and share the responsibility before you need to. Somebody's living in Australia, maybe they can do the finances, or, if somebody's close by, they look after the home, and somebody else might look after the care decisions. It's about playing to people's strengths so that everybody does feel they have an involvement, but also responsibility to be involved. Loneliness in old age By the very nature of ageing your social circle gets smaller as your friends die. A friend of mum's said that every year she was determined to make a younger friend, because she wanted to ensure her future social life. But a lot of the older generation either find it too difficult to keep up with their friends, or want to rely on their nearest and dearest, but you do want to encourage a social life, and sometimes the pressure on you to be that social life as well as the carer is huge. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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