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Sandwich Generation Resources

planning & finances

• village to village network
   

• aarp guide to food delivery services
   

• aging life care association
   

• care.com
   

• eldercare locator
   

• aarp caregiving tools (find services, keep track of health records
   

• family caregiver alliance tools & resources
   

• national institute on aging’s getting started with long-distance caregiving
   

• beginners guide to long-distance caregiving
   

• daily caring’s how to help aging parents with finances
   

• national association of professional geriatric care managers' guide to creating a care plan
   

• ira required minimum distribution worksheets
   

• aarp longterm care insurance guide
   

• aarp long-term care cost calculator
   

HEALTH

• aging well: surprising guideposts to a happier life from the landmark harvard study of adult development 
   

• being mortal: medicine and what matters in the end, atul gawande 
   

• alzheimers association
   

• know the 10 signs of alzheimers checklist
   

• the 36-hour day: a family guide to caring for people who have alzheimer disease, related dementias, and memory loss
   

• aarp home fit guide
   

• when reasoning no longer works: a practical guide for caregivers dealing with dementia & alzheimer's care
   

living options

• senioradvisor.com
   

• questions you should ask about assisted living facilities
   

• alfa guide to choosing an assisted living facility
   

• argentum guide to assisted living options
   

• daily caring’s checklist on moving to assisted living
   

• downsizing the family home: what to save, what to let go, by marni jameson 
   

• national association of senior move managers
   

• thoreau’s downsizing planner for seniors, by philip baker 
   

• bayada
   

• caringinfo
   

• national association for home care & hospice
   

• national hospice and palliative care organization
   

• leadingage
   

• national clearinghouse for long-term care information
   

• medicare's nursing home comparison
   

MEMOIRS

• when breath becomes air, paul kalanithi 
   

• a bittersweet season: caring for our parents and ourselves, jane gross
   

• being my mom's mom,  loretta anne woodward veney
   

• can’t we talk about something more pleasant?, roz chast
   

• displacement, lucy kinsley
   

• elegy for iris, john bayley
   

• the fifth season: a daughter-in-law’s memoir of caring, lisa ohlen harris
   

• the reluctant caregiver: navigating the turmoil of the sandwich generation, bobbi junior 
   

• tuesdays with morrie, mitch albom
   

• the year of magical thinking, joan didion
   

• the diving bell and the butterfly: a memoir of life in death

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CAREGIVING

• village to village network
   

• aarp guide to food delivery services
   

• aging life care association
   

• care.com
   

• eldercare locator
   

• aarp caregiving tools (find services, keep track of health records
   

• daily caring’s checklist for visiting elderly parents
   

• family caregiver alliance tools & resources
   

• national institute on aging’s getting started with long-distance caregiving
   

• beginners guide to long-distance caregiving
   

benefits

• benefit finder tool
   

• national council on aging’s benefit checker 
   

• veterans affairs’ explore your benefits 
   

• aarp medicare resource center 
   

• medicare benefits
   

• social security supplemental security income (ssi)
   

• spouse and widow(er) benefits
   

• social security retirement benefits
   

• social security disability benefits
   

death

• funeral planning guide
   

• planning your own funeral
   

• the executor's guide to settling a loved one's estate or trust
   

• how the probate process works
   

• ftc funeral costs and pricing checklist
   

• estate taxes
   

• va burial and death benefits
   

• filing life insurance claims
   

GRIEVING

• healing after loss: daily meditations for working through grief
   

• on grief and grieving: finding the meaning of grief through the five stages of loss
   

• when children grieve: for adults to help children with death, divorce, pet loss, loving and other losses
   

• life is goodbye, life is hello: grieving well through all kinds of loss
   

• death without denial, grief without apology: a guide for facing death and loss
   

• wasn't ready to say goodbye: surviving, coping and healing after the sudden death of a loved one
   

LEGAL

• national academy of elder law attorneys
   

• aarp health law answers
   

• advance directive forms
   

• the 5 most essential documents when your parents are elderly