§ Journey
Your mum or dad is changing. The operating manual.
The signs you've been minimising. The conversation no one wants to have. Capacity, power of attorney, advance care directive, before they're needed. My Aged Care, home care packages, residential aged care, and the means test, in plain English. The carer load on your time, your work, your marriage, your body. How to share the load with siblings (and what to do when they refuse to). How to prepare for the conversations at the end.
Begin →What you've noticed and shouldn't keep ignoring. The pattern beneath the small incidents.
With your parent, with your siblings, with their GP. How to start it without it ending in an argument or a denial.
What to put in place while they still can. The Australian legal documents that prevent six months of grief later.
My Aged Care, home care packages, residential aged care, the means test. The path through, in plain English.
Pension, assets, the family home, what funding looks like. The financial mechanics of aged care without the jargon.
Your time, your work, your marriage, your body. The carer's body breaks first. How to keep yours from doing that.
Palliative care, what to ask, what good looks like. The last weeks, and how to be in them with your parent.