Web Resources

Articles About Difficult Conversations as Parents Age 

• "10 Suggestions on How to Approach your Aging Parent's Driving"  (Roadway Safety Foundation)

            https://www.roadsafeseniors.org/blog/10-suggestions-how-approach-your-aging-

            parent%E2%80%99s-driving

• "Talk to your Aging Parents about their Finances" (Kiplinger) https://www.kiplinger.com/slideshow/retirement/t013-s001-talk-to-your-aging-parents-about-their-finances/index.html
• "5 Tips for Talking to Aging Parents about their Finances" (Schwab)  https://www.schwab.com/resource-center/insights/content/5-tips-talking-to-aging-parents-about-their-finances
• "Talking with your Parent about Disability" (Family Caregiver Alliance) https://www.caregiver.org/talking-your-parents-about-disability
• "Dealing with Aging Parents and Siblings:  Ways to Work Better Together" (Daily Caring, an award-winning caregiver website)

              https://dailycaring.com/dealing-with-aging-parents-and-siblings-5-ways-to-work-                        better-together/

• "What Aging Parents Want From Their Kids"

               https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2016/03/when-youre-the-aging-     parent/472290/?utm_source=share&utm_campaign=share

• "How to Work with Aging Parents when They Resist Help"

https://www.aarp.org/caregiving/life-balance/info-2019/when-aging-parents-resist-help.html

Articles about Elder Mediation

• "When Siblings Can't Agree on What to do with an Elderly Parent" (WSJ)

https://www.wsj.com/articles/when-siblings-cant-agree-on-what-to-do-with-an-elderly-parent-11593708118

• "How to Choose an Elder Mediator" (AARP)

https://www.aarp.org/caregiving/financial-legal/info-2017/how-to-choose-caregiver-mediator.html    

• “When Aging Issues Lead to Family Conflict” (LawyersWeekly)

http://www.elderdecisions.org/docs/lawyersweekly.pdf 

• “Between Aging Parents and Adult Children” (mediate.com)

https://www.mediate.com/articles/generational.cfm#comments 

• “Caring for an Older Person and Facing Difficult Decisions? Consider Mediation." 

(Center of Social Gerontology)

http://www.tcsg.org/MInoncourtbrochure_01.pdf 

Articles by Dr. Atul Gawande

• "Rethinking Old Age"

https://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/24/opinion/24gawande.html

• "The Way We Age Now"

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2007/04/30/the-way-we-age-now

• "Letting Go"

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2010/08/02/letting-go-2

Comprehensive Resources related to Aging

• National Caregiver Alliance:

https://www.caregiver.org/resources-health-issue-or-condition

https://www.caregiver.org/fact-sheets

Articles about High Conflict People and Mediation

• https://www.highconflictinstitute.com/hci-articles/elder-mediation-a-growing-field-for-family-mediators?rq=elder%20mediation

Organizations that promote Adult Family Mediation / Elder Mediation

• AARP
• Association for Conflict Resolution (ACR) (national organization for mediators)
• American Bar Association, Commission on Law & Aging
• American Bar Association, Section on Dispute Resolution
• The Center for Social Gerontology
• National Association for Community Mediation