The Long-Distance Caregiver's 90-Day Plan: How to Coordinate an Aging Parent's Care From Another City Without Losing Your Job, Family, or Peace of Min

The call always comes at the wrong moment. You're standing in a supermarket aisle or leaving a meeting when you learn your mother has fallen hundreds of miles away. In an instant, everything you thought the next year would look like changes.

If you're one of the millions of adults caring for aging parents from another state, you know what follows: panic, guilt, and uncertainty. You have a job, a family, limited time off, and no idea what to do first. This book gives you a clear plan-for the first 72 hours, the first month, and the first 90 days.

The Long-Distance Caregiver's 90-Day Plan is a practical roadmap for the critical period after a parent's fall, hospital stay, memory decline, or loss of independence.

Phase One helps you stabilize the crisis: what questions to ask, what to do after a fall, and why gathering information matters more than buying a plane ticket.

Phase Two builds a reliable care system: assembling local helpers, setting up power of attorney, organizing finances, preventing elder fraud, and choosing technology that actually helps.

Phase Three tackles the conversations families avoid: driving, dementia, assisted living, late-night emergencies, and preventing caregiver burnout before it damages your own health.

Written for working adults in the sandwich generation, this guide is designed for people balancing careers, children, and long-distance caregiving on real budgets and real schedules.

Unlike memoirs or medical textbooks, this is an operational manual. Inside you'll find conversation scripts, realistic cost estimates for home care, assisted living, and memory care, questions that help doctors review medications, efficient travel plans that maximize short visits, and five appendices packed with templates, checklists, and resources for readers in the US, UK, Canada, Australia, Ireland, and India. Every chapter begins with a real family's story and ends with a practical action you can take immediately.

The book is built on one simple idea: proximity is not care-coordination is. Living far away is a logistical challenge, not a moral failure. A well-organized network of reliable people will always outperform one exhausted child constantly boarding airplanes.

By the final page, you'll have replaced panic with a plan, guilt with structure, and uncertainty with a system that works even when you can't be there.

You cannot always be there. But you can make sure someone is.

Start tonight.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Jessica Hintz
Published: 07/31/2026
ISBN: 9798256227531
Pages: 300
Weight: 0.89lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.67d