How Not To Pull Your Family Apart

Parenting & Relationships

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Synopsis

"Carroll weaves her vast experience in long term care insurance and personal insights into the MUST-READ book! It is jam-packed with helpful information families and professionals need to know in order to make informed decisions about aging planning." —Annalee Kruger, President of Care Right Inc., and author of The Invisible Patient: The Emotional, Financial, and Physical Toll on Family Caregivers

Who’s going to be the physical, emotional, and financial caregiver in your family (no matter how you define family)? Few of us understand or are prepared for the breadth of lifestyle implications that come with that role. On the flip side, what if it’s you that needs care?

Meet the Jones family, a multigenerational example of how it all works in the real world. Follow Jodi and her family as they suddenly must deal with her parent’s extended care needs. Tension, guilt, and a lack of information start to impact Jodi’s health, happiness, job and family, relationships. Follow along as this multigenerational family uses my three-step process to create a Care Guide, a Care Squad, and a Care Planning Team. Learn how to establish a framework to start and continue conversations, minimize tension, and gain an overview of several planning options to fit almost any budget so you’re ready for tomorrow.

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Author Biography

Carroll S. Golden, CLU, ChFC, FLMI, CASL, LACP, LTCP, CLTC, is an executive, author, and pubic speaker whose focus is working with agents/advisors and caregivers about opening family discussions and planning for extended care needs. Currently, she serves as the Executive Director of the National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors (NAIFA) Specialty Centers. She is dedicated to helping professionals and families create and fund a plan for extended care by providing actionable information, guidance, effective strategies, expertise, and resources. Following Carroll’s text-book for professionals, “How Not To Tear Your Family Apart,” her second book, an Amazon #1 Best Seller story-book, “How Not To Pull Your Family Apart” encourages individuals and families to identify with the story’s characters, overcome the silence, and engage in these important discussions. Carroll can be reached at carroll@thecaringconversation.com

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Author Insight

One of the Biggest Mistakes We Make

Assuming we will be able to judge someone’s declining health can be a mistake. Thinking that we can engage someone to help with longevity issues, can be a mistake. The lack of trained or even available assistance for those in need of support came to light during the COVID pandemic. The states are looking at the looming care crisis, and so is the federal administration.The Fact Sheet released by the White House, announced the most sweeping set of executive actions in history to improve care. The administration believes that we must secure significant new federal investments to transform care in this country. More than three-quarters of home and community-based care service providers are not accepting new clients, leaving hundreds of thousands of older Americans and Americans with disabilities on waiting lists for home and community-based services or struggling to afford the care they need. The Administration is taking action to make child-care and long-term care more affordable, by directing multiple agencies to act. The directives are aimed at helping both care recipients and caregivers.

Book Excerpt

How Not To Pull Your Family Apart

Warm greetings are shared, and Grandpa James announces Grandma will not be joining. Already very concerned about Grandma, everyone carefully maintains their warm expressions.

Jodi breaks the silence. “Dad, the other day, you and I discussed if we should ask Grandma’s doctor if she should get a cane to steady her up. I did some research and, frankly, I’m alarmed to learn that statistically, when an elderly person falls, their hospital stays are almost two times longer than those of elderly patients who are admitted for any other reason. Sadly, according to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), falls are the leading cause of death from injury among people age sixty-five and older with more than half of all injury-related deaths involving people age seventy-five or over.”

Grandpa James, looking concerned, takes a moment to internalize the information. “I had no idea. For Grandma, the most profound effect of falling would be the loss of her ability to function independently.” Chuckling, he adds, “Or her version of independently.”

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Carroll S Golden

How Not To Pull Your Family Apart

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Author Biography

Author Insight

One of the Biggest Mistakes We Make

Book Excerpt

How Not To Pull Your Family Apart

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