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Helping Aging Parents

ABC, December 22, 2003

By Kate Rice

In today's mobile society, many adult children face the dilemma of helping out their aging parents from afar...Although situations vary greatly from family to family and resources vary widely depending on where parents live, there are certain universals to be addressed. First is your parents' ability to live independently, according to Karen Stevenson Brown, publisher of www.elderweb.com, a 10-year-old Web site with eldercare information. That starts with their home -- how accessible is it? Will there be a need to remodel or even move?...

Helping Aging Parents

ABC, December 22, 2003

By Kate Rice

In today's mobile society, many adult children face the dilemma of helping out their aging parents from afar...Although situations vary greatly from family to family and resources vary widely depending on where parents live, there are certain universals to be addressed. First is your parents' ability to live independently, according to Karen Stevenson Brown, publisher of www.elderweb.com, a 10-year-old Web site with eldercare information. That starts with their home -- how accessible is it? Will there be a need to remodel or even move?...