Ensuring Your Parents' Financial Independence.  This useful article on the AARP website provides an overview of the process and issues of working with your parents so that they can make the most of their money.  It also provides links to other resources.
Aging Parents and Adult Children Together (A/PACT) A series of 10 articles produced by the Federal Trade Commission in partnership with AARP.  The series  will introduce you to a variety of financial and legal eldercare issues you may confront.
Talking With Aging Parents About Finances, Provides strategies for dealing diplomatically with family finance issues with aging parents. By Marsha A. Goetting, Extension family economics specialist and professor, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana; and Vicki L. Schmall, PhD, former Extension gerontology specialist and professor, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon
Your Family's Money, "76% of parents say they are very comfortable talking about their estate with their children, but only 45% of adult kids feel the same way".  This "Money Magazine" July 2006 article describes what you need to know and how to start the conversation.
Online Guide to Tax Incentives for Retirement Saving  The guide's purpose is threefold: to explain the different tax incentives associated with various plans; to discuss what the government requires of such plans as a condition of their tax-favored status; and to describe how employers and individuals have adapted in response to tax incentives and the accompanying requirements.
Post-Retirement Roth Conversion.  It can make sense to convert a traditional IRTA to a Roth IRA even after retirement.