For most adult children with aging parents, there is often the dilemma of whether or not they should be involved with monitoring their aging parents spending habits. You want to honor their independence, but what if they show signs of…
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Heed These Warnings About Aging Parents’ Medications
Is your aging parent one of the many battling Alzheimer’s disease or another form of dementia and taking medication? Dr. Elizabeth Landsverk, a Silicon Valley, California-based geriatrician, recently quoted in an article in The Mercury News, strongly advises against elders…
Avoid These Three Retirement Mistakes That Can Make A Mess For Your Family
Retirement talk is on a roll. With 10,000 Boomers turning 65 every day, no wonder. But besides advice on how to “live the life of your dreams” and have a “secure retirement” there’s some important information too few are taking…
The Looming Crisis: Aging Parents And Adult Children Still Living At Home
You may know of an older individual or couple who has a middle-aged adult child living with them in their home. We are not talking here about those who sensibly chose a multi-generation household for good reasons. And this is…
Putting The Fun In Aging
In this society, we don’t usually think of aging as a fun time, but there are plenty of seniors who see things differently. Yes, they may have their physical limitations that came on later in life. Yes, there are things…
3 Things Everyone Should Know About Home Care Workers
It starts innocently enough. The watchful adult child, usually the daughter notes that her mother is having more trouble with walking and caring for herself. She thinks some help a few days a week would allow mom more independence.…
The Language Of The Healthcare System-Plain English Please
We probably all feel somewhat lost in a hospital or nursing home (aka “rehab facility”). Unless you’ve been educated in or have been a part of the healthcare system yourself, it is like a foreign land. When an aging parent…
Seniors’ Desperation: A Perfect Tool For Elder Abuse
Can you think of anything that makes a person more desperate than being in pain? You can’t stand it. Maybe you’ll fall for anything that promises to end your pain. My mother in law, Alice, now in her 90’s, was…
This Small Step Can Prevent Financial Disaster For Your Aging Parents
Ruth is 88, still quite independent, taking care of herself at home. She does her own shopping and cooking and pays her own bills. Great at her age, right? But when it comes to memory, that’s a problem. And forgetfulness…
Removing Secrecy In Nursing Home Wrongdoing
After 25 years without changes in basic rules, the nursing home industry is finally being forced to reveal hidden wrongs that happen to residents. Until now, consumers were required to sign arbitration agreements when they were admitted to a nursing…
Resolving Family Conflict and Aging Parent Issues
Resolving Family Conflict and Aging Parent Issues – Carolyn Rosenblatt In this interview, Carolyn Rosenblatt, Co-Founder of AgingParents.com, AgingInvestor.com, and Author of “The Boomers Guide to Aging Parents,” The Family Guide To Aging Parents,” and Succeed With Senior Clients: A…
Three Tips For Talking To Aging Parents About Costs Of Future Care
Three Tips For Talking To Aging Parents About Costs Of Future Care by Carolyn Rosenblatt, RN, Elder Law Attorney Can you imagine your aging parents losing their independence? It might be the conversation they don’t want to have with you.…
Is Your Aging Parent Safe From Family Predators?
This really happened. If you had this 91 year old client, what would you do? Emma liked to play the sweepstakes. But her memory was starting to decline. A lot. When it came to her bank account, she forgot…
Are You Worried That You May Have To Be Financially Responsible For Your Aging Parents?
*FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Are You Worried That You May Have To Be Financially Responsible For Your Aging Parents? If you don’t know what to expect as your parents grow older and you’ve never thought about what can go wrong, you…
Learn why we all need to protect our aging loved ones from “Financial Elder Abuse”
Carolyn Rosenblatt – The Boomer’s Guide to Aging Parents – interview – Goldstein on Gelt – Jan. 2015
Three Ways Families With Aging Parents Can Stay Out of Court
Do you get along with everyone in your family? Lots of people don’t. Old conflicts can rise up when aging parents start to decline in health and need help. When there is conflict in families, it can sometimes escalate to…
Who Is Competing For Your Aging Client’s Attention and Dollars?
Competition for clients has always been there, but as investors age, something you might not have anticipated can happen. The vultures are out there. Competition with you for their invested assets can become an increased threat when an older client’s judgment is compromised.…
Boomers: Will You Need Care In Your Own Future?
Hello again, from Carolyn and Mikol at AgingParents.com! Wishing all of you a beautiful season. Here’s a subject that many of us are involved in right now. Millions of us Boomers are caring for an aging parent. Some take…
Reducing Holiday Stress For Our Aging Parents
Holiday get togethers with family are notoriously stressful, especially when an aging parent or grandparent has a problem with remembering things. It may be diagnosed as dementia or not, but you can tell that your aging parent has memory loss…
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- Intrusion or Just Being Safe? Monitoring Aging Parents’ Finances June 13, 2017For most adult children with aging parents, there is often the dilemma of whether or not they should be involved with monitoring their aging parents spending habits. You want to honor their independence, but what if they show signs of…Read more ›Mikol Davis
- Heed These Warnings About Aging Parents’ Medications June 9, 2017Is your aging parent one of the many battling Alzheimer’s disease or another form of dementia and taking medication? Dr. Elizabeth Landsverk, a Silicon Valley, California-based geriatrician, recently quoted in an article in The Mercury News, strongly advises against elders…Read more ›Mikol Davis
- What Aging Parent Leaves A Legacy of No Regrets? April 19, 2017Does it seem impossible that a person can reach his last days and look back without any regrets at all? What does it take? We all seem to regret our mistakes and some of our choices in life. At AgingParents.com, we…Read more ›Mikol Davis
- Avoid These Three Retirement Mistakes That Can Make A Mess For Your Family April 7, 2017Retirement talk is on a roll. With 10,000 Boomers turning 65 every day, no wonder. But besides advice on how to “live the life of your dreams” and have a “secure retirement” there’s some important information too few are taking…Read more ›Mikol Davis
