Build an Aging Parent’s Benefits and Care Administration Binder

Set aside 45 minutes alone with your parent — no providers on the call, no other relatives driving the agenda. Print the five sections the binder can cover (Benefits, Insurance, Medications, Providers, Legal) and head a blank page “Scope Record”. Explain in one sentence what you are building: a record of their benefits and care administration, kept with their consent — not a takeover of decisions or money.

Keep the signed scope record in hand — the next step inventories only what this page covers, and declined sections stay out of it.