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.…
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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…
What You Don’t Know About Medicare Open Enrollment Can Cost You
Mikol and I wish you well from AgingParents.com. As you’re probably seeing ads on TV or getting solicitations in the mail about Medicare plans, here are a few things you should know if you, your aging parents or a family member…
Would You Immediately Recognize These Elder Abuse Hidden Scams?
Most days at I get a call from an adult child of an elder, asking me about shady dealings over a parent’s finances. Sometimes it’s the niece, grandson, or other family member the caller is worried about. Sometimes it’s the…
The Worst Excuse For Not Protecting A Vulnerable Parent
This one shocked me. Here at AgingParents.com we’ve been hearing elder abuse tales for a long time, but I was stunned when I heard this. A family of 3 siblings has been worried about their widowed father, who lives alone…
Where Can LGBT Seniors Age Without Discrimination?
We have some thoughts about emerging solutions to an aging part of our population, the LGBT community. For the longest time, the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community got little other than negative press and highlighting of controversial issues. But…
Busting The Myth That You Should Let Impaired Aging Parents Make All Their Own Decisions
I am compelled to share these stories with you, sad as they may be. I hope you can learn from the way others handled what was supposed to be doing the right thing. Or so they thought. Are you…
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- What To Do When Medicare Screws Up Your Aging Parent’s Bill August 21, 2017Most of our aging parents receive Medicare, which is supposed to pay “covered medical costs”. And for the most part, it does. But then there are the mistakes. Are your aging parents helpless when Medicare refuses to pay for something that…Read more ›Mikol Davis
- Nip A Predator’s Scheme In The Bud — Stop Your Aging Parent From Becoming Prey July 12, 2017Rhonda is a 91-year-old widow and lives independently. She has a few million in investments and has planned well for retirement. Her two sons are busy and leave her to make decisions about her money independently. What Rhonda’s sons didn’t…Read more ›Mikol Davis
- 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
