Home Instead Senior Care Expert Offers New Guide on Successful Intergenerational Living
More and more seniors are moving in with their adult children, creating numerous challenges with many generations in the same household. To help families with this transition, Home Instead Senior Care, Torrance is offering a free booklet to help address the emotional, financial, and safety aspects of intergenerational living. There is also a website that offers even more resources.
Torrance, Calif. (PRWEB) May 21, 2009 -- The increasing number of seniors now living under the same roof with at least one other generation is becoming part of a growing national trend. But there are numerous challenges to combining several generations under one roof, so Home Instead Senior Care, Torrance is offering a free booklet to help families address the emotional, financial, and safety aspects of intergenerational living.
"How do families determine if living together is a good idea?" says Denise de Cock, RN, owner of the Home Instead Senior Care Torrance office, which serves seniors from San Pedro to Marina del Rey (http://www.homeinstead.com/286). "Our free booklet provides tips on how to make the arrangement work well for both seniors and their family caregivers, if they do decide to combine households." The booklet will also help adult children begin to address the stress of caregiving under one roof, adapting a home for two or more generations and merging household finances.
Several factors are driving this trend, explains de Cock. "We see families coming together to share caregiving duties for economic reasons and emotional support. Sometimes the seniors need care, but in other cases the older adults could be providing care to their own grandchildren. Regardless of the reasons, combining households is a big decision. Some families may decide that maintaining separate residences is the best alternative."
More support and information can be found at http://www.makewayformom.com, including a calculator that will help families compute whether living together or maintaining separate residences is the best financial option. The site also features a virtual tour of an intergenerational home where visitors can hear from a real family and see how they've adapted their home.
The handbook was compiled with the assistance of three national experts: Matthew Kaplan Ph.D., Penn State Intergenerational Programs extension specialist; Adriane Berg, CEO of Generation Bold and a consultant on reaching boomers and seniors; and Dan Bawden, founder of the CAPS (Certified Aging in Place Specialists) program for the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB).
According to a recent survey (http://www.boomerproject.com) conducted for Home Instead Senior Care, 43 percent of adult caregivers in the U.S. ages 35 to 62 reside with the parent, stepparent, or older relative for whom they or someone else in their household provides care. The Census Bureau (http://factfinder.census.gov) confirms this growing trend: In 2000, 2.3 million older parents were living with their adult children; by contrast, in 2007, that number jumped to 3.6 million - a 55 percent increase.
Families should approach decisions of combining households from a partnership perspective, says de Cock. "Ask yourself, 'Can I get the whole family behind the idea?' Expectations must be set right away and family members must listen and become engaged in conversation. The more the entire family buys in at the beginning, the more likely they will be to come up with great ideas," she noted.
About Home Instead Senior Care, Torrance
Home Instead Senior Care/Torrance provides in-home senior care to clients in the South Bay, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, offering an unmatched level of integrity, trustworthiness and responsiveness. It is the only senior care provider in the South Bay with a comprehensive hiring and training program that ensures high quality care and reliable, personalized client service that consistently goes above and beyond expectations.
Through ongoing relationships with local senior care nonprofits, agencies, medical centers, assisted living facilities and other senior service providers, Home Instead Senior Care/Torrance has become the most informed source for senior care in the South Bay.For more information, call 1-800-FOR SENIORS or visit http://www.homeinstead.com/286.
Media Contact: Mary Blake, MB Writing & Consulting Group, (310) 376-3163 or 310-710-2755.
For copies of the free "Too Close for Comfort?" handbook, contact Home Instead Senior Care, Torrance, 1-800-FOR SENIORS.
Survey Methodology: The Boomer Project (www.boomerproject.com) completed online interviews with 1,279 U.S. adult caregivers, ages 35-62, with a parent, stepparent or older relative for whom they or someone in their household provides cares. Of the 1,279 family caregivers interviewed, 548 live with the senior receiving care.
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