Downsizing Mom & Dad: Planning is Key
Moving your parents into a retirement community or assisted living facility can be difficult, heartbreaking, expensive & tiring. Having a good plan is key.
Moving your parents into a retirement community or assisted living facility can be difficult, heartbreaking, expensive & tiring. Having a good plan is key.
Remote caregivers and medical professionals alike will soon be able to utilize the latest technology to monitor and converse with those aging in place.
Six months after her father passed away, a daughter and her family make the decision to move her elderly mother in with them. They decided to get the help from a CAPS certified contractor to help them make modifications to their home for her.
Preparing your home for one (or both) elderly parents requires a plan. That will ease the tension and make choices easier, as you get ready for for this new live-in situation.
In an attempt to be more sensitive and accommodating to those that are aging in place, members of the financial planning industry have teamed up with AARP to compile and distribute a handbook geared towards assiting those in the financial planning industry serve their elderly clients better.
If you’re caring for a family member aging in place, you’re going to have to broach the subject now or later; and later is going to be a much more difficult situation.
It’s hard to manage everything you have to do when you’re providing care for an elderly loved one. Here’s a tip (and a really good example) for managing the money for someone who is aging in place.
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