Oct 14 2024 4 mins
In this podcast episode, the last episode in the Proactive Planning series, Kristin McHugh, Lead Advisor with Brighton Jones, and Lisa Mayfield, our principal and founder, answer more audience questions.
Their discussion in this episode focuses on working with an Aging Life Care manager, Sandwich caregiving, and long-distance caregiving.
Should we proactively establish a relationship with an aging life care manager?
If you're engaged in proactive planning, an Aging Life Care professional (aka Care Manager) can help. We help you with personalized planning, goals, thinking ahead, considering options, and anticipating needs and costs.
Like attorneys, we bill for our time by the hour. When people first begin working with Aging Life Care professionals, it tends to be four to seven hours of services to help you with that planning. Most care managers, once you've met with us and you have a relationship, you can then reach out as things change.
It can often help ease some anxiety when you're thinking about the future, particularly those that are aging solo.
How do you navigate caregiving when you work fulltime or live long-distance from your parents? Are there any websites or particular tools that one can utilize to help determine the best places to go for care, folks to reach out to, etc?
Aging Life Care professionals (aka care managers) like us can help you navigate the best home care agencies or the best retirement communities. Engaging somebody like Aging Wisdom can be helpful because they'll connect you with those resources. And we have relationships with local resources, we know who is dependable and the approximate costs.
And if your parents aren’t interested, you can still meet with a professional to help you understand the lay of the land.
A senior center can be a great resource as well. For example, if someone's asking me for help in a different area of the country, and I see there isn't a care manager, I'll look to see if there’s a senior center. Senior centers are usually a great hub of knowledge and can help you navigate resources in their area.
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