Wisdom Wednesday: Aging Wisdom's Podcast
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101 episodes
Senior Housing Options: Skilled Nursing/Rehab
Skilled nursing facilities, nursing homes, and rehab centers provide short-term, residential rehabilitation services to individuals recovering after a hospital stay following an illness, injury, or surgery, or long-term care for individuals who...
Senior Housing Options: Memory Care
In the early stages of Alzheimer’s and other dementias, most people can live and be safely cared for at home by family or professional caregivers, or in an assisted living residence. A move to memory care may be prompted by a change...
Senior Housing Options: Considerations for Assisted Living
It’s important to be realistic about what Assisted Living provides – these are some aspects to consider:A move to Assisted Living for someone who has been struggling with navigating living in their single-family home or condo can be...
Senior Housing Options: Advantages to Assisted Living
Last week we provided an overview of Assisted Living (AL). While “aging in place” has its benefits, such individualized care can be e...
Senior Housing Options: Assisted Living, an overview
Assisted Living provides personalized, supported care in a residential setting. Residents have their own apartments The monthly cost is reflective of the size of the apartment and supports needed. People often move to assisted livin...
Making Sense of Housing & LTC Options: Independent Living
Understanding the differences between senior housing and long-term care options is essential to making the best choice to meet needs, goals, and well-being, while providing peace of mind. The choices can be overwhelming when it comes to retirem...
Now What? 4 next steps
Now what? 4 steps to understanding options, risks and benefits of each.First step: Get educate about care options.Second step: Understanding the cost of various options and your parents’ financial situation.
Is the Grass Greener? Insights on Moving to a Senior Living Community
Is the Grass Greener? Benefits to moving to a retirement communityWe’ve look at the reasons your parents are resistant to change. We’ve talk about
Home Sweet Home?
Do you have a plan for the time when home it is no longer safe and supportive for your parent/s, your spouse, your partner, or you? Every family and every situation is different. Just a few of the more common challenges we see to st...
Wisdom Wednesday: "I will never move!"
During the pandemic, we created a series of educational online courses focused on topics that families grapple with most often. This became Aging Wisdom University, a way to continue delivering relevant information and resources to family care ...
Proactive Planning: Q&A finale (11/11)
In this podcast episode, the last episode in the Proactive Planning series, Kristin McHugh, Lead Advisor with Brighton Jones, and...
Proactive Planning: Q & A Part 2 (10/11)
In this podcast episode, as well as the next (and last) episode in this Proactive Planning series, Kristin McHugh, Lead Advisor with ...
Proactive Planning: Q & A Part 1 (9/11)
In this podcast episode, and the next two forthcoming episodes, Kristin McHugh, Lead Advisor with Brighton Jones, asks
Proactive Planning: Who else can help? (8/11)
Aside for Aging Life Care Professionals (aka Care Managers) like ourselves, the professionals below are also resources for help with planning. ...
Proactive Planning: Is home really “Home Sweet Home”? (6/11)
In addition to elder law and estate planning attorneys, and financial advisor and wealth managers, there is a third type of professional that can help you with care planning, Aging Life Care Professionals, aka Care Managers, like our tea...
Proactive Planning: The Cost of Care (5/11)
The Seattle Times addressed the cost of long-term care in this recent article,
Proactive Planning: Financial Planning (4/11)
Financial planning. Whether it's for yourself or for your parents, having an understanding of assets in the context of when you're retired is essential. You'll need money for your basic needs, money to maintain the lifestyle that you wan...
Proactive Planning: Advance Directive (3/11)
There may come a time when due to injury, failing health, or age, you are no longer able to communicate your wishes regarding your medical treatment. This could happen if you had a stroke, are living with Alzheimer’s or other dementia, were in ...
Proactive Planning: Legal planning and paperwork (2/11)
Have your done your legal planning and paperwork? The first step, for yourself, or if you’re helping your parents, is the estate planning documents. Usually, estate planning is a package of documents. Most people are most fam...
Proactive Planning: Navigating Eldercare (1/11)
Are you ready to take charge of the future? Whether supporting an older parent or planning your own aging, it's crucial to understand the intricacies of long-term care and be prepared for any unexpected twists and turns. <...
Family Dynamics and Managing Care
It’s natural for disagreements to occur, even in families with strong functional relationships. However, when parents and other older adults you care about are experiencing memory and health changes, it can create tension. Rare is the family wh...
What does ongoing Care Management look like?
The depth and breadth of what care management is able to provide for clients is best answered by the needs and goals of each individual client....