Helping You Understand and Support Your Aging Parents
Are you worried about your aging parents? Are you afraid there are things happening with them that you don’t understand and can’t seem to fix? Do they seem anxious, lonely, irritable, or depressed? Do you wonder if this is all part of normal aging, or whether there is something you can or should do to help them?
If you are working, raising your children, maybe even your grandchildren, and caring for your aging parents, you are part of the “sandwich generation”. Trying to juggle all of the demands on your time without the right kind of support is a recipe for a huge amount of stress. It is also a potential health risk.
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You CAN find relief! As a gerontologist-therapist, I provide counseling and consulting focused on finding solutions for your particular concerns. I help you take advantage of effective strategies that will ease the burden. Many adult children of aging parents come up with successful strategies. Based on the many years I’ve worked with them – through both listening and brainstorming – I have accumulated knowledge about a wide range of solutions and resources which I make available to you.
Benefits of Counseling and Consulting for Children of Aging Parents from a Gerontologist-Therapist
- Accurate and up-to-date information and research about normal vs. unhealthy behaviors in older life
- Effective strategies for setting boundaries to prevent burnout
- Crisis management techniques when facing health, emotional and interpersonal relationship challenges
- Communication strategies for effectively dealing with your parents and siblings
- Proven strategies for effective patient advocacy with doctors and other health professionals
- Multi-generational relationship repair
- Practical steps for building a strong support network for you and for your parent
- Insightful guidance through your own feelings about aging and mortality
- Grief counseling
- How to tell and how to help if/when parents have cognitive decline
- Tips for locating a range of senior living alternatives in your community
- Practical, up-to-date information on local resources and support services
If you have an aging parent and want to explore the benefits of gerontology counseling and consulting, feel free to call me for a free 20-minute consultation at 415-378-6577 or email me at nrhine@gmail.com. Then, if you like, we can arrange a regular zoom or telephone appointment.
