When caring for elderly parents, listen to your lawyer (August 9, 2015)
</p> </li> <li> <p class="post-title"><a href="https://fogknife.com/2013-07-05-power-of-attorney-and-elder-parent-care.html">Preparing for elder-parent care with PoA</a> (July 5, 2013)</p> <p>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.</p> </li> </ul> </div> <div class="col-sm-3 sidebar"> <section> <h1>Hello</h1> <p> <a href="https://fogknife.com/2015-04-11-about-this-blog.html">This is a blog</a> by <a href="https://jmac.org">Jason McIntosh</a>. </p> </section> <section> <h3>Contact</h3> <p><a href="mailto:jmac@jmac.org" rel="me"><img src="https://jmac.org/images/email.png" class="author-link" alt="Email" /> jmac@jmac.org</a></p> <p><a href="https://masto.nyc/@jmac" rel="me"><img src="https://jmac.org/images/mastodon.png" rel="me" class="author-link" alt="Mastodon" /> @jmac@masto.nyc</a></p> </section> <section> <h1>Search</h1> <form action="https://www.google.com/search" class="searchform" method="get" name="searchform"> <input name="sitesearch" type="hidden" value="fogknife.com"> <input autocomplete="on" class="form-control search" name="q" placeholder="Search this blog" required="required" type="text"> <button class="button" type="submit">Go</button> </form> </section> <section> <h1>Recent Posts</h1> <ul> <li><a href="https://fogknife.com/2026-07-06-on-ligotti-watts-time-and-the-fractal-self.html">On Ligotti, Watts, time, and the fractal self</a></li> <li><a href="https://fogknife.com/2026-07-03-the-upside-down-s-theory-of-ai-visibility.html">The upside-down S theory of AI visibility</a></li> <li><a href="https://fogknife.com/2026-06-26-plerd-updates-and-ai-disclosures.html">Plerd updates, and AI disclosures</a></li> <li><a href="https://fogknife.com/2026-06-21-being-kind-to-my-dumbass-self.html">Being kinder to my dumbass past self</a></li> <li><a href="https://fogknife.com/2026-06-19-the-rapture-of-the-programming-languages.html">The rapture of the programming languages</a></li> <li><a href="https://fogknife.com/2026-06-17-et-tu-rat-queens.html">Et tu, Rat Queens?</a></li> <li><a href="https://fogknife.com/2026-02-01-the-horror-writer-audiobook.html">I narrated The Horror Writer, a new audiobook</a></li> <li><a href="https://fogknife.com/2025-12-22-my-media-work-and-appearances-in-2025.html">Stuff I produced or guested on in 2025</a></li> <li><a href="https://fogknife.com/2025-12-20-bumpyskies-is-alive.html">BumpySkies is alive</a></li> <li><a href="https://fogknife.com/2025-12-15-on-feeling-soul-sick-from-shooter-games.html">On feeling soul-sick from shooter games</a></li> </ul> </section> <section> <h1>Others, elsewhere</h1> <p>If you enjoy Fogknife, you might also like these websites. (See also an <a href="http://fogknife.com/2019-04-21-a-fogknife-blogroll.html">expanded edition of this list</a>.)</p> <ul> <li><a href="https://bluerenga.wordpress.com">Blue Renga</a></li> <li><a href="https://daringfireball.net">Daring Fireball</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.filfre.net/">The Digital Antiquarian</a> (and <a href="https://analog-antiquarian.net">The Analog Antiquarian</a>)</li> <li><a href="https://emshort.blog/">Emily Short's Interactive Storytelling</a></li> <li><a href="http://ep.tc">Ethan Persoff</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.oreilly.com/topics/four-short-links">Four Short Links</a></li> <li><a href="https://jvns.ca/">Julia Evans</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.jwz.org/blog/">JWZ</a></li> <li><a href="https://kickscondor.com/">Kicks Condor</a></li> <li><a href="https://kottke.org/">Kottke.org</a></li> <li><a href="http://outsideyourheaven.blogspot.com">Outside Your Heaven</a></li> <li><a href="http://warrenellis.ltd/">Warren Ellis LTD</a></li> <li><a href="https://blog.zarfhome.com">Zarf Updates</a></li> </ul> </section> </div> </div> <footer style="font-size:small; font-style:italic" class="container"> <hr /> <p>Except where otherwise noted, content of this website is licensed under a <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License</a>, attributable to Jason McIntosh (jmac@jmac.org).</p> <p>Powered by <a href="https://github.com/jmacdotorg/plerd">Plerd</a>.</p> </footer> </div> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://stackpath.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.7/js/bootstrap.min.js"></script> <script> var starble_base_url = 'https://fogknife.com/star/'; function update_star_count( button ) { $.getJSON( starble_base_url + 'count?thing=' + button.data('starble-guid'), function( data ) {} ) .done( function( data ) { $('.starble-count[data-starble-guid="' + data.guid + '"]').html( data.result ); }) .fail( function() { }) .always( function() { }) ; } function update_star_display( button ) { $.getJSON( starble_base_url + 'check?thing=' + button.data('starble-guid'), function( data ) {} ) .done( function( data ) { var star = $('.starble-star[data-starble-guid="' + data.guid + '"]'); var star_class = 'starble-star glyphicon glyphicon-star'; if ( data.result != 1 ) { star_class = star_class + '-empty'; } star.attr( 'class', star_class ); }) .fail( function() { }) .always( function() { }) ; } $('.starble-button').click( function( ) { $.getJSON( starble_base_url + 'toggle?thing=' + $( this ).attr('data-starble-guid') , function( data ) {} ) .done( function( data ) { var button = $( '.starble-button[data-starble-guid="' + data.guid + '"]' ); update_star_display( button ); update_star_count( button ); }) .fail( function() { }) .always( function() { }) ; }); $('.starble-button').each( function() { update_star_display( $(this) ); update_star_count( $(this) ); }); $('.webmention-summary').each( function() { var span = $(this); var uri = "https://whim.fogknife.com/summarize_wms?url=" + $(this).data('post-uri'); $.get( uri, function( data ) { span.html( data ); }); }); </script> </body> </html> <style> .post-title { margin: 0 } </style>