The ElderOptions Toolkit is a guide to help you clarify your priorities for aging. A sample of guided questions follows.

Feel free to think about these questions as you consider your own aging process.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1. Introduction to the concept of Aging with Intention —
Exercise: Envisioning Aging

2. Medical Future Planning — Advanced Directives –
What loved ones should know –
Exercise: Future Wishes

3. Financial Future Planning — The practicalities of money – what family should know –
Exercise: Where are my Documents

4. Aging in Place or not — what are the options? –
Exercise: Consider Yourself at Home

5. Community Resources — what does my city/state offer?

6. Family Involvement in Care — how much or how little?

7. Death – what we CAN plan for?
Funeral arrangements, cemetery plots, etc…