What To Do When Elderly Parents Fire Caregivers | Overcoming Objections of Aging Parents

Learn what to do when elderly parents fire caregivers. Gain insights into why aging parents deny needing help in the home from someone other than an adult child or a spouse.

Aging parents often expect adult children to be their only caregivers. These expectations mean that caregivers must overcome objections and obstacles to care for aging parents by setting boundaries and discussing the involvement of other people, including paid caregivers.

When elderly parents fire caregivers and family caregivers allow this to happen, caregivers reduce their ability to overcome the objections of aging parents by appearing to agree with the firing. Similar to parents setting boundaries with young children, adult children must set boundaries with aging parents who expect them to provide all of their care.

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