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

Are You Ready?

The Great Wealth Transfer is coming and will provide the next generation with resources for insurances and investments -that is, if it isn’t consumed by extended or long-term care costs. According to Arizent's latest research report, “Capturing the Next Wave of Clients," the next generation will expect digital tools, education and ongoing communications; a presence and ingoing activity on social media channels; availability of younger advisors or team members; and the hosting of “entire family” events. One of those “entire family” events should be an extended care planning session involving the entire family (no matter how your client defines family). A succinct, inclusive way to start the planning and to interact with other family members who will inherit the family business or wealth is to use a format with several options to start and continue the conversation.

Book Excerpt

How Not To Pull Your Family Apart

My three steps guide you in creating a Care Guide, a Care Squad, and a Care Planning Team. You establish a framework to start and continue conversations by opening lines of communication, encouraging participation, and talking about choices and financial stability.

The Care Guide is filled with relevant, accurate, and updated information. Each guide should contain a birthdate, height, weight, allergies, health conditions, medications (with dosages), primary language, passwords, emergency contacts, doctors’ and specialists’ contact information, and more. If a crisis occurs, no one has to scramble to find information because it’s in the Care Guide. It’s also a great planning tool. When planning, the more you know about the person you’re helping, the better. Even if that person is you!

The objective of the Care Squad is to create a process for family members to react effectively when emergencies arise. It also provides a back-up plan in case the primary caregiver is not available.

The Care Planning Team (CPT) provides a structure for multigenerational discussions and assessments. The CPT discovers available options that suit each generation’s immediate, extended, or long-term care needs. When it is time to seek professional advice or support, the CPT members are educated consumers—ready to discuss options, ask relevant questions, and make decisions!

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Carroll S Golden

How Not To Pull Your Family Apart

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Are You Ready?

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How Not To Pull Your Family Apart

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