{"id":6752,"date":"2016-04-25T21:44:59","date_gmt":"2016-04-25T21:44:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thefyi.org\/8-ways-help-aging-parents\/"},"modified":"2016-04-25T21:44:59","modified_gmt":"2016-04-25T21:44:59","slug":"8-ways-help-aging-parents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thefyi.org\/8-ways-help-aging-parents\/","title":{"rendered":"8 Ways to Help Your Aging Parents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As they age, our parents might need more help. But you might not know exactly how to lend a hand or even where to start. Plus, what do you do if your parents balk at your attempts to assist them?<\/p>\n<p>While every situation is unique, <a href=\"http:\/\/christinasteinorth.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Christina Steinorth<\/a>, MFT, a psychotherapist and author of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Cue-Cards-Life-Reminders-Relationships\/dp\/0897936167\/?tag=psychcentral\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Cue Cards for Life: Thoughtful Tips for Better Relationships<\/em><\/a>, offered her suggestions for helping aging parents.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Empathize with your parents<\/li>\n<li>Call them regularly<\/li>\n<li>Get other family involved<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/psychcentral.com\/blog\/archives\/2013\/04\/20\/8-ways-to-help-your-aging-parents\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As they age, our parents might need more help. But you might not know exactly how to lend a hand or even where to start. Plus, what do you do if your parents balk at your attempts to assist them? While every situation is unique, Christina Steinorth, MFT, a psychotherapist and author of Cue Cards [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10748,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[148],"tags":[164,335,342,232],"age":[],"content-type":[],"persona":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefyi.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6752"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefyi.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefyi.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefyi.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefyi.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thefyi.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6752\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefyi.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefyi.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefyi.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefyi.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6752"},{"taxonomy":"age","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefyi.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/age?post=6752"},{"taxonomy":"content-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefyi.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-type?post=6752"},{"taxonomy":"persona","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefyi.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/persona?post=6752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}