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Correct This Mistake With Aging Parents Before It’s Too Late

Correct This Mistake With Aging Parents Before It’s Too Late 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…

Carolyn RosenblattApril 11, 2022

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Elder Alone: Horrible Case of Neglect and Caregiver Abuse

Your aging parents may be okay right now, but how about other relatives? How about that isolated neighbor who lives alone and has no one nearby? This is a shocking real case we encountered at AgingParents.com where we address crises and questions about elders. The names are changed and the…

Carolyn RosenblattNovember 11, 2020

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Legal Issues: Protecting Your Wishes and Assets Part 1 (The Living Will)

Part I – The Living Will - Advance Directives for Health Care 8:50 You have a stroke or an accident and are suddenly unable to communicate to the medical team what treatments you want or don’t want. Who makes the decisions? You do, if you had written down your desires…

Mikol DavisApril 20, 2014

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Legal Issues: Protecting Your Wishes and Assets Part 2 (Power of Attorney)

Legal Part II – Power of Attorney 7:11 There are times in life when you or your parent is not able to make certain legal or financial decisions. When those times come, having a trusted family member or friend be able to make decisions, carry out financial transactions or other…

Mikol DavisApril 20, 2014

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Are Health Care Directives Worth The Paper They're Written On?

Are Health Care Directives Worth The Paper They're Written On? HEALTHCARE DIRECTIVES ONLY WORK IF YOU KNOW HOW TO USE THEM 1. What is a healthcare directive anyway? It is a legal document that a person signs, specifying his or her wishes if the person becomes incapacitated and…

Mikol DavisNovember 27, 2013

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Correct This Mistake With Aging Parents Before It’s Too Late

Elder Alone: Horrible Case of Neglect and Caregiver Abuse

Legal Issues: Protecting Your Wishes and Assets Part 1 (The Living Will)

Legal Issues: Protecting Your Wishes and Assets Part 2 (Power of Attorney)

Are Health Care Directives Worth The Paper They're Written On?

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