4 Thought Provoking Questions to Ask Your Aging Parents

4 Thought Provoking Questions to Ask Your Aging Parents

Have you noticed that your parents are beginning to look older? Do they still live in their own home, buy their own groceries and drive themselves to appointments? Have you had any conversations with them about their future? For example, do they have an estate plan, if they became incapacitated where would they want to live or who is in charge of their affairs if they were incapacitated? We know that talking with your aging parents about estate...
Nursing Home Planning For a Loved One, Reach Out For Assistance

Nursing Home Planning For a Loved One, Reach Out For Assistance

Are you caring for an aging loved one who may need to enter a nursing home in the future? As you begin to plan for nursing home care someday, who can you reach out to for good, accurate and professional advice and assistance? A qualified Florida elder law attorney will be able to help you and your aging loved one wisely choose among the options available to pay for the costs of nursing home care. In addition, he will be sure you and your loved...
Tips You to Keep Seniors Safe from Sweetheart Scams

Tips You to Keep Seniors Safe from Sweetheart Scams

Are you familiar with the romance scam called the “lonely heart” scam? This scam occurs when scammers and bad actors attempt to financially exploit vulnerable people. How does this happen? It can happen in many ways, including online, by the scammer earning the trust of the vulnerable person through romantic manipulation and emotional deceit. Sadly, seniors tend to be targets of many kinds of scams, but they are especially vulnerable to the...
How to Best Support an Aging Parent Who is Newly Diagnosed with Alzheimer’s

How to Best Support an Aging Parent Who is Newly Diagnosed with Alzheimer’s

Has your aging parent recently been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s Disease?  Do you know what Alzheimer’s Disease is?  Do you know what the impact of this diagnosis may be?  Alzheimer’s Disease is a type of dementia that can cause problems with memory, thinking, cognition, and behavior. Symptoms usually, although not always, develop slowly and worsen over time.  The end-stages of the disease can become life-threatening. Although...