Family Conversation-Starters About Retirement: Five Questions That Can Get People Talking (and Not Just About Money)
Last week here on the AgingOptions blog, we offered some helpful ideas from NerdWallet about how to have “the money talk” with aging parents during holiday get-togethers. As the article warned, conversations about money can often turn into arguments, and nobody likes that...
The Holidays Offer a Good Chance to Talk with Parents About Finances – but Handle the Subject with Care and Empathy
For many families, the weeks between Thanksgiving and New Year’s Day will be different this year than last. One year ago, millions of families skipped holiday celebrations entirely due to COVID-related fears and travel restrictions. Yet in spite of the persistence and...
The Price of Silence: The hidden cost of not sharing your preferences in advance
No one likes to think about the day when they are incapacitated due to a sudden illness. Even fewer people like to talk about it. Just try bringing it up with your spouse or your kids. It’s not easy.
Let’s say you have a stroke, the kind that takes away your ability to...
Some Surprising Things Millennials Want to Hear from Boomer Parents
Here at AgingOptions, one of the hallmarks of our LifePlanning process involves clear, complete family communication. Over the years we have dealt with many difficult situations in which Mom and Dad never sat down with their adult kids to go over their retirement plan and...
Some Surprising Things Millennials Want to Hear from Boomer Parents
Here at AgingOptions, one of the hallmarks of our LifePlanning process involves clear, complete family communication. Over the years we have dealt with many difficult situations in which Mom and Dad never sat down with their adult kids to go over their retirement plan and...
Many Families are Resolving Conflict through Elder Mediation
We’ve said it many times, in our printed materials and on the radio: few conflicts can become more contentious than family conflicts. Tragically, this is especially true when it comes to issues relating to elder care. We think that’s because, in conflicts over how to care for...
When Assigning POA, Choose Carefully and Communicate Openly!
Sometimes we run across helpful articles that do a good job of stating a problem, without providing much of a solution. Such is the case with this recent article we found on the website www.AgingCare.com. It’s entitled “Family Feuds over Power of Attorney,” and it warns...
Sibling Fights over a Parent’s Care Can Be Solved with Mediation
It happens all too often, even in families with little history of bickering: arguments can erupt between adult siblings over the care of an aging Mom or Dad. Sometimes these fights become years-long feuds, even ending up in court. When that happens, everyone loses, and family...
You could Save a Relative’s Life – with a Family Health Tree
When you think about your retirement years, you certainly want to stay as healthy as you can, for as long as you can. No one wants to be a burden to his or her loved ones! At the same time, every senior we know would do as much as possible to help their family members avoid...
5 steps to quash problems over inheritance
Story after story gets written about the rich and famous individuals and their not so rich or famous peers whose adult children and second, third or even fourth spouses argue about what they would want once they become cognitively impaired or die. Unfortunately, it’s proven...
