Adult Child's Dementia Decision Guide

When dementia enters a family, it rarely arrives one problem at a time.It starts with a missed appointment, a repeated story, a moment of confusion you want to explain away. Then the questions multiply. Is this normal aging or Alzheimer's? How do you get a parent evaluated when they insist nothing is wrong? When do you step in about driving, money, medication, wandering, or living alone? How do you manage siblings, work, memory care, burnout, hospice, and the long goodbye without losing yourself in the process?The Adult Child's Dementia Decision Guide is the flagship guide in the Caring for Aging Parents series: a practical, emotionally honest roadmap for adult children and family caregivers facing dementia in real time. Where other books in the series focus on one pressure point, this book is the full-spectrum guide for the moment when diagnosis, safety, paperwork, placement, and grief all start colliding at once.Inside, you'll find clear, plain-language help for the decisions families actually face: recognizing cognitive decline, starting a medical workup, understanding Alzheimer's disease, Lewy body dementia, frontotemporal dementia, vascular dementia, and mixed dementia, handling repetitive questions and refusal of care, making decisions about driving, home safety, scams, legal authority, and finances, balancing caregiving with work and family life, navigating hospitalizations, rehab, unsafe discharge, and memory care placement, and preparing for end-of-life choices, comfort care, hospice, grief, and life after caregiving.This is not abstract theory. It is built around the real texture of family caregiving: the late-night panic, the family group text, the doctor's office, the unpaid bills, the wandering crisis, the exhausted caregiver, and the impossible choice that still has to be made. Along the way, recurring family stories and practical tools help turn fear into action.If you are looking for a dementia caregiving guide for adult children, an Alzheimer's caregiver book, help with memory care and placement, support for caregiver burnout, or a practical guide to the stages of dementia and what to do next, this book is designed to meet you where the crisis already is.You do not need to read it straight through. Start where you are. Use the chapter, checklist, script, or decision tool that solves today's problem.If you are carrying the decisions, the logistics, and the fear, this is the guide that helps you act with more clarity, less guilt, and a better understanding of what comes next.