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Does Your Company Need a Formal Caregiver Support Program? Here’s How to Tell

You don’t find out your company has a caregiving problem by watching any one employee closer. You find out by…

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The Guilt of Moving Your Parent Into Memory Care (And Why It Doesn’t Mean You Failed)

Moving your parent into memory care does not mean you failed them. It means you looked at a situation becoming…

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7 Things to Know About VA Aid and Attendance Before You Apply for a Parent’s Care

VA Aid and Attendance is a monthly cash benefit added on top of a wartime veteran’s or surviving spouse’s VA…

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What to Do the Moment You Discover Financial Exploitation of an Aging Parent

What you can do the moment you find missing money depends on the authority you already hold, not on how…

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The Step-by-Step Checklist for Appealing a Hospice Discharge or Medicare Denial

You have far less time than you think, and far more power than the denial letter or discharge notice wants…

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The Financial Planning Checklist for a New Frontotemporal Dementia Diagnosis

After a frontotemporal dementia diagnosis, the most important legal step, getting power of attorney and a will signed while your…

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How to Request More Medicaid In-Home Care Hours When Your Parent’s Needs Increase

Your mother’s hours were fine six months ago. They are not fine now, and Texas Medicaid does not know that,…

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9 Documents You Need Before Starting a Texas Medicaid Spend-Down

Texas HHSC’s long-term care Medicaid application officially requires proof of identity, income, assets, homestead status, and medical necessity, plus disclosure…

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12 Caregiver Burnout Warning Signs You Should Not Wait Out

Caregiver burnout is doing real damage to your health when your body starts sending the warning signs you’d tell your…

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7 Questions to Ask a Mediator or Elder Law Attorney When Siblings Can’t Agree on Power of Attorney

When you and your siblings are stuck on who holds power of attorney for a parent, the fastest way through…

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9 Tools Families Use to Track and Share Power-of-Attorney Paperwork Between Siblings

No app replaces a properly executed power of attorney, but a secure shared folder, a family document vault, or an…

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10 Signs a Sibling’s Power of Attorney May Need a Closer Look

A sibling holding power of attorney is worth a closer look, not an accusation, when you notice unexplained financial changes,…

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Caregiving, Death, Dementia, Mental health, Uncategorized

How Frontotemporal Dementia Differs From Alzheimer’s, and Why It Changes the Money and the Legal Timeline

If you have been told your parent has early Alzheimer’s and almost nothing you are watching matches that, this page…

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Protect Your Soul: What to Do When Caregiving Is Eroding Who You Are

You do not recognize the woman in the mirror anymore. Not in the way people mean when they talk about…

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Caregiving, Death, Dementia, Mental health, Uncategorized

Can Siblings Share Power of Attorney? Joint, Several and Successor Appointments, and What Each One Costs a Family

You have just been told you cannot see your own mother, and the paperwork your brother is holding says he…

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Caregiving, Death, Dementia, Mental health, Uncategorized

Can a Sibling With Power of Attorney Legally Stop You Seeing Your Parent?

This is one of the most painful questions families ask me, and it never arrives on its own. Somebody is…

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