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Know This: Your Aging Parent Living At A Distance May Be At Risk

American families are often scattered across the country. Kids grow up, find opportunities they like in other places and move away from home. The parents may stay put, happy to remain where they’ve lived most of their lives. Then aging happens. And with it, risks no one really thought about.…

Carolyn RosenblattNovember 15, 2023

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What To Do When Your Stubborn Aging Parent Makes Bad Financial Decisions

Do you have a stubborn aging parent? Are you worried that he or she is doing unsafe or just plain dumb things? You’re not alone. Here at AgingParents.com, we see this scenario often, and it’s frequently about control over the family finances. Here’s an example, based on a real case…

Carolyn RosenblattApril 24, 2023

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How This 89-Year-Old Managed Transparency With Unequal Distribution Of Her Estate To Her Heir

Gertie is a sharp 89, with a history of being well organized in her life. She is widowed, and was living alone. During Covid, one of her four daughters and her husband moved in with her, a plan that was supposed to be temporary. Gertie needed a little help with…

Carolyn RosenblattFebruary 28, 2023

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What To Do When An Aging Parent Takes In A Homeless Friend

Roger, 90 and Mark, 85 have been off and on friends for 50 years. Mark has no family of his own. Roger’s adult kids call him “Uncle Mark”, as he’s shown up for family events for decades. He once had plenty of money, or so it seemed. There was the…

Carolyn RosenblattJanuary 27, 2023

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What Decisions Can An Aging Parent Make After A Dementia Diagnosis?

When an aging parent is diagnosed with dementia of any kind, it can be devastating and confusing to the family. For some, there is denial: “It’s not that bad, I don’t see anything wrong with her, and let’s just let things stay the same for now.” For others, there is…

Carolyn RosenblattNovember 23, 2022

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Help Your Aging Parents Avoid This Common Mistake

Parents often want to be fair with their adult kids and may want to appoint them together on legal documents when they do their estate planning. That means that the adult children will have “equal decision-making ability” on things like the Power of Attorney for finances or the Advance Healthcare…

Carolyn RosenblattJune 19, 2022

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Aging Parents and The Blended Family — That Never Blended.

Aging Parents And The Blended Family That Never Blended Second marriages, third ones, step-siblings and the issues we see at AgingParents.com are a heads-up for everyone with divorced aging parents. Those rivalries among step-siblings and the lack of cohesion in decision making can go very wrong as parents age and…

Carolyn RosenblattJune 2, 2022

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The Inner Struggle: An Abusive Aging Parent Needs Help—Will You Give It?

The Inner Struggle: An Abusive Aging Parent Needs Help—Will You Give It? Over years of consulting with adult children’s struggles with their aging parents, some issues stand out to me. Some of the hardest ones are about an adult child who was abused, neglected or both by a messed-up parent.…

Carolyn RosenblattMay 15, 2022

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Aging Parents and The Problem With Doctors

Problem With Doctors If there is an aging loved one in your life, chances are they’ve got some chronic medical conditions. Heart disease, high blood pressure, respiratory disease, and other common issues bring them to the doctor. And the primary care doctor makes referrals to specialists. Each specialist focuses on their…

Carolyn RosenblattMay 6, 2022

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Can Your Aging Parent’s Live-In Partner Take Financial Advantage Of Your Loved One?

Dementia can disrupt even the coziest living arrangements between unmarried older adults. Cognitive impairment can set your aging parent up for financial manipulation. It’s very convenient for the live-in boyfriend or girlfriend to get into the partner’s bank account by coaching the impaired one to go the bank and take…

Carolyn RosenblattNovember 15, 2021

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