How To Have Difficult Conversations With Stubborn Aging Parents

Holidays may bring you into face-to-face contact with your aging parents and other loved ones. Maybe you’ve been meaning to talk with them for future planning. You hesitate because they’re stubborn and resistant to the whole subject. You’ve put it off. Now you may have an opportunity.Perhaps your aging parents are fiercely independent, resistant to help, or outright dismissive of their children’s concerns.

Here are some thought on how to approach those difficult but necessary discussions with a stubborn parent who refuses to plan for the future.