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Worksheet Sheet Parenting and family

Caring for a Parent Getting Older

See everything you are doing for your parent and find where help could come in.

Purpose: See everything you are doing for your parent and find where help could come in.

When to use: Use this when looking after a parent has quietly become another full job.

Worksheet prompts

  1. List what you do for them in a normal week. Include the small things.
  2. How much of this is falling on you alone?
  3. Go through your list. What only you can do, and what could someone else do?
  4. Who is one person or service you could ask, and what would you ask for?

You are doing something hard that mostly happens where nobody sees it.