PM Aging Parents

Prepare the conversations with aging parents that everyone postpones — the driving talk, the money talk, the care-options talk, the moving talk — each with an opener that doesn't ambush, a dignity-first script, rehearsal against realistic resistance, and the fallback when it goes badly. Use when someone says 'I need to talk to my dad about driving', 'my mum won't discuss her finances', 'we need to talk about care', or is dreading a visit for exactly this reason. Produces the conversation plan, a rehearsal, and the small-steps fallback. A preparation tool, not family therapy — and it says so when the situation needs more.

Get siblings onto one team about aging parents before the crisis does it for them — a structured family meeting with an agenda that prevents old-roles regression, a fair-not-equal division of care work (money, time, and proximity counted honestly), decision rules for when parents can't decide, and the written summary that prevents six months of 'nobody told me'. Use when someone says 'my siblings and I need to talk about mum', 'my brother does nothing', 'we keep fighting about dad's care', or before a parent's health forces it. Produces the summit agenda, the care-share worksheet, and the family memo.