Mediation and Eldercare Issues

Families face many challenges in providing continued, loving care for their elders. Many families struggle to communicate and to agree about the care of their parents or other family members. Often people don't know where to turn for help with the myriad of life-changing decisions to be made. Financial, housing, medical, care-giving, end-of-life and legal issues need to be considered. Caring families might disagree not only among themselves but also with their elderly parents, caregivers, facility administrators, and other professionals. Long-distance care-givers have their own areas of concern.


To be successful, Elder Mediation requires specialized elder experience. The transitions demanded by aging can strain family relationships. For older adults and their families, mediation is the low-stress alternative for resolving medical, financial, care provider, and interpersonal issues. Whether the subject is living arrangements, medical care, billing, consumer complaints, or estate planning, the process of mediation can turn the worst argument into a productive search for solutions. It is a non-adversarial way to resolve just about any kind of dispute involving elder persons.