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Making a Plan for Momma | The TAP Plan
For Those Wanting to Craft Their Future Care Road Map Today I want to talk about making a plan. As Caregivers, our lives are often beyond hectic. Without a making a plan, we are virtually begging for failure. Before I share our new concept of making a plan, I want to...
COVID – Should We Avoid Visiting Mom?
The Unwelcomed Surprise We Didn’t See Coming Let me preface this discussion with a disclaimer. I’m not a doctor and have no medical training at all. I’m just reporting on a phenomenon that I see almost daily in our elder law practice and am reflecting on some of the...
Preplanning for Mom | Reasons it’s Necessary
Nobody wants to think about the end, so preplanning is often bypassed. But, what do you do when you are caring for a parent who is beginning to decline? The first step is often to help them get the best quality of care that they need at this Journey Stop in their...
Can You Trust Your Trustee?
This is a touchy subject! What happens if you are aging and see that you will soon need help so you give access to your bank accounts to one or more of your adult kids. OR you name them as your POA? OR Trustee of your trust? Then, you start to notice money slipping...
Mom is Worried | Helping Her Plan
Planning for the Worst when Mom is already Worried Susan's Mom is worried... What follows is a fictional (but very typical) situation that we see every week. Susan’s Mom told Susan that she was worried as to what would happen if she developed Alzheimer’s. Mom was very...
Autumn Garden | Out with the Old
Time to Pull Out The Old and Plant the New! The seasons are changing and now it’s time to focus on autumn. Last night, Cindy & I pulled up some of the last remaining recently deceased remnants of the garden that we planted earlier this year. Many of these plants...
Road Trip with Momma? Before You Go…
A few things to remember. Have you began traveling again? I’m just wondering if you have taken a recent road trip or will be... It seemed that, starting in May or June, many felt the bad stuff was over and started to venture out again. Then July and August hit and...
Emotions Surrounding the Nursing Home Decision
Hitting the Wall of Burnout! Most of us deal with our emotions on a daily basis. Some of them are good and some are bad. On a typical day, the good emotions may far outweigh the bad emotions. Sometimes we suppress our emotions - has someone ever said something to you...
Necessary Decisions for Mom | Discussions and Preparations
Discussions Make a Difference! What do you do when you see a parent declining in health? You truly feel they need help, but don’t really know where to start. Today we’re going to talk about working together as a family to make a decision. In situations where the...
Direction | Cardinal Knowledge Shows Us the Way
Up Front Discussions Make a Difference! Something happens to Momma and we react immediately! We are confused but feel called into action so we just start running. We don’t know where, but it’s an emergency, so we start running with no direction. If we stop to ask for...
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Journal: The Caregiver’s Best Friend
How a journal can help those in the “In-Between Zone” One thing that I like about modern technology is email. Email is a sort of modern day journal. Emails can store memories, receipts, plane tickets, and so much more. Recently I was reading my "email journal" when I...
A Christmastime Shocker!
Helping Loved Ones in the In-Between Zone We hope that you had a great Christmastime and a very Happy New Year! Many of you spent Christmastime with Loved Ones, eating Christmas turkey, opening presents and just enjoying the day. Perhaps you spent a part of your day...
Christmas Reflections
I remember many Christmas times as a young child with my parents and grandparents around the Christmas Tree at home. They were simple times when we would open a few presents, share a Christmas meal and spend time with each other. I enjoyed those times and when I was...
Alzheimer’s Caregiver – Lessons Learned
Back before Covid was a thing, Cindy interviewed Alzheimer’s Caregiver Phil Smith who frequently attended her Alzheimer’s Support Group meetings. Phil served as a remote caregiver for his Mom and as a personal Family Caregiver for his wife. Times have changed, but the...
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