Tag: elder care

• When caring for elderly parents, listen to your lawyer (August 9, 2015)

  Since relaunching this blog as a regularly updated enterprise late last year, I have several times linked to my post from July 2013 on securing power of attorney for one’s aging parents. Sometimes the context matches that post’s title; sometimes I instead wish to make a reference to that year’s personal ordeals. But in any case, the post has this whole time ended with a promise that I’d link to followup telling the rest of the story, and I never have. So, let’s take care of that now. If the moral of the earlier post was secure the services of elder-law attorney, then this post’s shall be please do not ignore their unexpected advice.

• Preparing for elder-parent care with PoA (July 5, 2013)

  tl;dr : If you have elderly parents, and expect to become responsible for them later, then you should start talking to an elder-law attorney right now about obtaining Power of Attorney over their affairs.