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Dementia Empowered: Confident Caregiving with Legal, Financial, and Daily Support

Does caring for an aging parent with dementia leave you feeling overwhelmed? Managing bills, using a power of attorney, and understanding the health care system is hard enough, but you may also be baffled by your family member"s behaviors. Dementia Empowered is a podcast helping family caregivers to navigate dementia care, overcome legal and financial challenges, and confidently support their loved ones. Your host, elder law attorney and dementia care coach Patrick Cawley, has worked with people

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#101 | Stop Family Dynamics & Financial Stress...

Dementia Empowered: Confident Caregiving with Legal,... ·

2024/12/16

Are family dynamics, financial stress, and caregiving challenges turning your holiday season into chaos?The holidays often bring families together, but they can also highlight unresolved issues with aging parents, dementia care, and financial struggles.In this episode, we’ll help you navigate these overwhelming challenges with practical solutions, a touch of humor, and expert advice.In this episode, you will:Learn how to find laughter in the chaos while tackling family stress head-on.Discover

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43:59

Busy Professionals, Overwhelmed by Dad's Health Decline

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2024/11/26

All across America, busy working adults are balancing pressures at work, raising children, maintaining a home and marriage, and saving for retirement. The balancing act fails when an aging parent's health declines. In Episode 100, we look at one family's experience with Parkinson's and dementia. Their story reveals the lessons on how legal planning matters and how a specific skills can make a world of difference when a loved one experiences dementia.

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Financial, Insurance, and Legal Strategies for...

Dementia Empowered: Confident Caregiving with Legal,... ·

2024/11/19

"Everybody's thinking about it. They have it on their minds. But they don't want to talk about it."Brian Kennedy is a financial advisor who runs clients through various life scenarios and asks "What if...?" If the scenario is your spouse having a car accident and needing extensive long-term care, he has provided a model of what that does to your finances and it's not pretty. It's not even just the cost. There's a real emotional difference between having your Mom live in the same home with your

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44:42

Avoid the Hospital's Revolving Door

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2024/11/12

If you're over the age of 65 and you are discharged from the hospital, there is a 1 in 5 chance that you will be back in the hospital in the next 30 days. Going to the hospital is an intense experience. Older adults are especially vulnerable to problems that arise from hospitalization. They see more health care providers, have more complicated chronic health conditions, take more medications, and are more likely to experience cognitive decline. Hospitals navigate many obstacles to make

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44:13

Online Security, AI, and Other Technology Tips

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2024/11/06

Whether it's your banking, your shopping, your calendar, or how many steps you took today, so much personal information depends on a device and the internet. Keeping up to date with rapidly evolving technology can be perplexing!You not only need to know how to use the device, but you also need to know how to keep your personal information secure. When the device needs to be replaced, what do you do with the old one? If you plan appropriately for incapacity, how can your family access your

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44:11

What Women Should Expect

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2024/11/01

Do women have different planning considerations than men? Absolutely. Women generally live longer than men by over five years. Women are more likely to experience dementia and other chronic illnesses than men. While most people need long-term care and support during their lifetimes, women need that care and support for longer periods of time than men do.But there's more, and it's worth noting demographic trends and cultural trends. The current crisis in our institutional resources for older

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44:22

Being a Good Ancestor

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2024/10/24

What does it mean to be a good ancestor? We have a clearer idea of what it is to be a good parent or grandparent. Seeing the impact of your decisions over generations requires a long-term vision.People may answer this question by describing money saved. They call it "generational wealth." But studies have showed how massive family wealth is lost by the third generation. What lasts hundreds of years are the personal habits that become culture. What was once a tradition of the village or the tribe

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44:15

Taxes and Tradeoffs

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2024/10/15

There is a dizzying array of taxes standing between people and their goals to make life better for the next generation. We work hard to make a living, but we have to play defense when it comes to taxes. When people make estate plans, the two most common tax issues involve inheritance tax and capital gains tax. Trying to avoid one of them may cause a mistake with the other. The best strategy for one person may not be the best strategy for another. Different family makeups and different

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44:19

Aging Together

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2024/10/08

A grandchild sits with rapt attention listening to his grandfather describe the feeling of World War II anti-aircraft fire hitting the grandfather's plane. A grandmother describes what living during Prohibition was like. Family traditions, where a person lives, and talents the person has make much more sense as the person learns from older family members about the people who came before and what they did with their lives.Meanwhile, the grandchild adds to the safety, functional abilities, and

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44:38

Emergency Services and Older Adults

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2024/10/01

While estate planning is the safety net when a person's health declines, there are emergencies that require immediate attention. Making sure that smoke detectors and carbon monoxide alarms are functioning is good preventative planning. But when the alarm sounds, there are steps you can take to make it easier for first responders to help. Fires, floods, and falls happen. In this episode, Jerry Ozog from the Hampden Township Volunteer Fire Company shares the kinds of calls his department goes out

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44:38

Helping Those Who Don't Want Help

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2024/09/23

William is having difficulty finding common words when he speaks. His friends have noticed that he cannot follow a conversation. He can't remember people he's known for decades.William's friends and family all want to support William. What if William resists their efforts? Maybe William even resents them for being in cahoots to take over his life.This resistance to help often happens with older adults who lose physical mobility or cognitive function. The problem is even worse when dementia is

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Concierge Medicine: A Partnership with Your Doctor

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2024/09/16

Compared to a generation ago, information and strategies to maximize health and longevity are widely available. Is your primary care physician working those strategies with you?Most primary care practices are driven by accountants and insurance companies for efficiency. But determining the unique needs of each patient really requires more time. Prevention of illness may require tools that are not covered by insurance.The concierge model of primary care aims to build a partnership between the

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Candidate for PA Attorney General: Eugene DePasquale

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2024/09/09

How you plan for decision-making if you get sick, how your life savings is distributed, how much tax you pay, and how you protect assets are all issues fixed by law.Elected officials gather information and make decisions that impact your life. Understanding who they are as people and how they think about their responsibilities is important to planning in the later years of life. In this episode, the Democratic candidate for Attorney General of Pennsylvania, Eugene DePasquale, explains who he is as

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44:06

Your Frequently Asked Questions

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2024/09/03

This is your whole life. It's improving the lives of family members with your hard-earned savings. It's managing incapacity if you get sick.There are many moving parts to protecting what is yours and having a seamless transition for decision-making if you get sick. At Keystone Elder Law, we break it all down into plain English so that people can make better plans. During weekly webinars and seminars, we teach the concepts and answer questions. People show up eager to learn, and they ask great

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44:14

Your Business, Your Retirement

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2024/08/26

Imagine owning a business and wanting to retire, but you can't. You're stuck, without a buyer in sight. This is a failure of planning.Later in life planning starts before you're old, and an exit plan for your business starts as soon as you start it. Whether it's training your successor, ensuring that revenue does not depend on you, or modernizing your operations to increase the profit margin, these are all aspects of planning that must be done for a valuable asset -- your business. In this

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44:40

5 Tips for Dementia Care

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2024/08/19

While any illness in the later years of life can cause emotional turmoil for family members, none seems to cause as much anguish as dementia. Relationships are never the same. The loss of memory and rational thinking skills disrupts the person's ability to socialize in the same way, to reminisce or plan for the future, and even to recognize spouses and children. The focus on these lost competencies, however, ignores the skills that are retained. These retained abilities offer opportunities for

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44:23

Creative Aging with Art

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2024/08/12

A 100 year old woman is given some supplies and general directions. She creates art that brings forth a cherished memory of picking mushrooms with her grandmother in Poland.As a lesson on overcoming limitations, a group of older adults take a page from bed-bound Henri Matisse, who satisfied his drive to create by using a six-foot bamboo rod with charcoal in the tip to draw on his walls. The older people come up with an idea, pick up their bamboo rods, and get to work. Some have poor eyesight and

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44:21

The Athos Diet

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2024/08/05

Mount Athos is a mountain on the Athos peninsula in northeastern Greece where monastic communities have existed for a thousand years. The inhabitants live long and healthy lives. Their secret?According to Dr. Pete Patitsas, there is science to explain why religious traditions and wisdom have allowed the inhabitants of Mount Athos to live into their 80s, 90s, and 100s with little or none of the chronic diseases that plague Americans. Dr. Pete wrote The Athos Diet (TheAthosDiet.com) to give people a

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44:19

Experience in the Land of What If's

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2024/07/29

Every professional working with older adults is a social worker at least part of the time. We ask questions about family dynamics. We ask "What if..." and find solutions and resources for people. We educate people about our health care system and the legal planning necessary to navigate that system. Having an experienced guide is the best way to spot potential problems down the road and to solve the problems that arise. In this episode, you'll hear stories from an experienced guide. Brittany

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Bringing the World to the Homebound

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2024/07/23

You may have a parent or a neighbor who has been sidelined by a stroke, a fall, or a surgery. You know that person has travelled the world, read lots of books, or has a passion for music. Now what?Our library system has evolved to provide much more than books. They offer classes and music and movies and direction to resources. What happens when a person who wants to experience the world can no longer leave his or her house? Across the country, there are programs to bring the library's

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