Aging Parents Help in Atlanta

Senior Home Care & Home Health for Elders living in Fulton, Dekalb, Gwinett, or Cobb counties,  call 5 Star Homecare at 404-719-4118. 

When is a good time to talk with mom and dad about their aging concerns?

Our answer: there may be no good time to bring up this hard conversation. We do suggest that it’s done as soon as possible. Now that we have the new year upon us, try to resolve to discuss critical issues with aging parents in Fulton, Dekalb, Gwinett, or Cobb counties in the new year.

Making our New Year’s resolutions is just upon us so, add one more to your list for 2009. Resolve to talk with your aging parents and family members about critical aging issues in this new year.

There’s a good reason to make this resolution. A 2006 survey by the Roper Public Affairs and Media Group of 1,000 seniors nationwide indicates that Baby Boomers are not communicating with their parents as often or as well as they think. In fact, the study found a real disconnect between the issues adult children perceived as important and seniors’ actual concerns.

For starters, adult children think their parents are more concerned about aging issues than they actually are (53 percent vs. 33 percent). That’s a pretty big gap.

The difference in wavelength may be because seniors and children don’t talk often enough. Baby Boomers claim to talk frequently with their parents about important health and other matters (60 percent). However, only 32 percent of seniors agree.