They're Sending Your Parent Home

The hospital says your parent can go home. That can be good news - and the start of a difficult handoff.

A discharge packet does not answer every practical question: Which medicines changed? Is the walker actually at the house? Who is staying the first night? What did the care team say to watch for? Who owns pending test results? What happens when the adult child helping lives hours away?

They're Sending Your Parent Home gives adult children a calm, practical 72-hour framework for turning hospital discharge into a workable home plan.

Inside, you will learn how to:

• Ask the questions that expose gaps before leaving the hospital.
• Reconcile medication information without guessing or changing treatment on your own.
• Prepare the home for the first night and first bathroom trip.
• Organize equipment, home health, therapy, follow-up, and pending results.
• Understand key Medicare discharge-planning and appeal questions.
• Respond when a parent lives alone, refuses the plan, or has new confusion.
• Divide responsibilities realistically when one caregiver cannot do everything.
• Build a two-week bridge after the first critical 72 hours.

The book also includes five realistic transition scenarios and a 14-tool Hospital-to-Home Toolkit with a one-page discharge snapshot, medication reconciliation sheets, first-night safety check, equipment/service tracker, warning-sign plan, caregiver shift plan, call log, pending-results tracker, follow-up brief, and more.

This is an educational family-planning guide, not medical, legal, financial, nursing, or insurance advice. It is designed to help families ask better questions, organize information, and make the next step clearer.

You do not need to solve the next six months today. Start with a safer handoff and the next 72 hours.