Our culture of personal independence and the ingrained habit of not asking for help can be a source of conflict between adult children and their parents when Mom and Dad begin to lose the ability to care for themselves.

Planning in advance and having the difficult, but necessary, conversations can do much to reduce conflict. For a growing number of families caring for aging parents, handling an elderly parent’s money, or using the courts to take complete control over a parent can be daunting.

Author Carolyn Rosenblatt leads family caregivers through the advantages and dangers of each option in the current Gilbert Guide issue, www.gilbertguide.com. The article is adapted from her book, “The Boomer’s Guide to Aging Parents.” Financial control questions are also answered in one of its nine individual mini-books, geared to specific topic areas and available separately.

Rosenblatt provides counseling for families, through her website, AgingParents.com, on a variety of aging issues. Topics range from navigating the health care bureaucracy, to convincing an elderly driver to give up the car keys, finding home health aides, choosing nursing homes, and resolving family disputes over an elderly parent’s care.

For more information about the book and counseling services, visit their website at AgingParents.com, or call Carolyn Rosenblatt at (415) 459-0413.

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