Insights

Proactive planning for aging in Texas: what to settle while a parent can still sign, who owns each job, and the 60-month look-back to understand.

Siblings fighting over who pays for a parent’s care can get organized in 6 steps: one cost page, every contribution counted, a split and an owner.

Caring for a parent with dementia can drain your own savings. See what it costs you, what 12 weeks of FMLA covers, and who helps protect your money.

Texas caregiver resources sorted by who does what: 2-1-1, 28 Area Agencies on Aging, ADRCs, HHSC, HICAP, legal help and a dementia caregiving strategist.

Compare an Austin memory care base rate with the all-in cost, see what Medicare and Texas Medicaid leave unpaid, and test 4 steps to know if it lasts.

Medicare denied your parent’s care? Here is who does what, from the reviewer on the letter to SHIP and an attorney, and which of 4 deadlines applies.

Afraid the nursing home will take the house? See who helps with each part of a Texas Medicaid spend-down, what each does not do, and what to check first.

Texas families can get paid to care for a parent with help from 28 Area Agencies on Aging, ADRCs, CDS, the VA and a dementia strategist. Who does what.

Who helps plan the money when a parent has FTD: the elder law attorney, benefits help, planner and care manager, and where a CPA dementia strategist fits.

Yes. Six kinds of help serve a dementia caregiver, and one connects the money, the legal window and the family. Here is who does what, and what to ask.

After a parent’s dementia diagnosis, call these people in 6 steps, in order, so the money and the paperwork get done while your parent can still sign.

When one sibling does all the dementia care, most of it can move. How roles shift by capacity, not guilt, and why a parent’s capacity sets the deadline.