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A guided learning module

Caring for an Ageing Parent.

Your mum or dad is changing. The operating manual.

About 8 weeks7 lessons · 44mFree

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About 8 weeks

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7 · 44m

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The arc · 7 lessons

01The signs you've been minimising 02The conversation no one wants to have 03Capacity, power of attorney, advance care directive 04The system explained 05Money 06The carer load 07The end of life conversation

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§ 01 · What you'll learn

01How to navigate My Aged Care without losing six months

02The legal documents that need to exist before a crisis

03How to share the load with siblings (and what to do when they won't)

04What residential aged care actually costs and how it's funded

05How to keep your own job, marriage and body intact while doing it

06How to prepare for the conversations at the end

§ 02 · Who it's for

01Parent has just had a diagnosis (dementia, cancer, post-fall)

02Only sibling in the country, the load lands on you

03Parent is still independent but won't be in three years

§ 03 → The lessons

7 sessions, in order.

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01

The signs you've been minimising

What you've noticed and shouldn't keep ignoring. The pattern beneath the small incidents.

5 min 02

The conversation no one wants to have

With your parent, with your siblings, with their GP. How to start it without it ending in an argument or a denial.

6 min 03

Capacity, power of attorney, advance care directive

What to put in place while they still can. The Australian legal documents that prevent six months of grief later.

6 min 04

The system explained

My Aged Care, home care packages, residential aged care, the means test. The path through, in plain English.

7 min 05

Money

Pension, assets, the family home, what funding looks like. The financial mechanics of aged care without the jargon.

7 min 06

The carer load

Your time, your work, your marriage, your body. The carer's body breaks first. How to keep yours from doing that.

6 min 07

The end of life conversation

Palliative care, what to ask, what good looks like. The last weeks, and how to be in them with your parent.

7 min

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Caring for an Ageing Parent.

7 sessions, in order.

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The first 30 days after she says it's over

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