Topic: care mangement
As Lisa shares, part of the process of helping your parent is assessing the landscape and determining if their living situation is really a crisis and requires you to act. Or is there something you can do to make their home safer; an opportunity to insert a little bit of help by starting small? …
If your parent is experiencing memory loss, it’s unlikely they have insight that they need help. It’s probable they won’t accept support and are unwilling to make changes as a result. Lack of insight or awareness is common with cognitive change.
This is where you need to shift your perspective and determine if your parent can make that decision anymore, or if this is a decision you’re going to have to make on their behalf. …
In this segment, our colleague Wendy Nathan talks about long-distance caregiving and how families who live outside the immediate geographic area can benefit from engaging a Care Manager to help in the care of their parent who lives locally.
She and Sandra also talk about the services that a fiduciary provides in support of bill paying.
It’s not uncommon for an adult child responsible for health care and/or financial decisions who lives in San Francisco or London, for example, to hire us as an advisor and support for a parent who lives in the greater Seattle area. …
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