FALL 2010 CLASSES

Strategies for Helping Aging Parents (series)

Wednesdays, October 27, November 3, November 10

6:30-8:00 p.m.

*6:15-6:30 light dinner (provided)

Your parents live alone and drive even though it is no longer safe; they fire every housekeeper you send to help out. You have looked for resources and are overwhelmed. None of the available options specifically address your parents’ quirks, nor break the stalemate. Between your own family’s demands and your parents’ insistence that you accompany them on weekly shopping trips to the supermarket, the bank, and the post office, you are going under. How do you simultaneously lighten your load and improve your relationship with your parents?

Presenter:
Lynn Loar, Ph.D., LCSW
Lynn has been a research associate at MRI since 1985 and is the president of the Pryor Foundation, a non-profit educational organization devoted to creating innovative ways to reinforce positive behavioral change.

This series of three classes will teach you how to:

1. Reach agreement with your aging parents about the need for in-home help
This session teaches you ways to present information positively and without arguing. You’ll learn how to address your parents’ concerns for autonomy, independence and privacy, as well as yours for their safety.
Date: October 27th

2. Hire help your parents won’t fire
This session teaches you how to create a job description that includes all those details so essential to your parents—not only the tasks themselves but also how your parents do and don’t want to be helped. It shows you how to anticipate and address possible annoyances so your parents won’t fire the help you hire—how much talking and chatting the helper should do; use of TV, cell phones and ipods while working, and punctuality, breaks and other indicators of work ethic.
Date: November 3rd

3. Hire safe and appropriate staff
This session helps you decide whether to hire through an agency or independently; how to screen, interview and check references to select a responsible candidate and reduce the risk of abuse, neglect, theft and identity theft. It also teaches you how to offer the job and provide a feedback loop to adjust and update plans as needed.
Date: November 10th

Cost:
$75 for all three in a series.
Space is limited so please register early.

*Note: If you would like to register for individual community sessions please send an email to mri@mri.org. Individual community sessions are $30 each.

Or call (650) 321-3055.

 

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