How Not To Pull Your Family Apart

Thanks for the Advice, Mr. Buffet

Warren Buffet remarked that “What counts for most people in investing is not how much they know, but rather how realistically they define what they don't know.” The statement equally applies to short and extended care planning. Did you ever explain the ‘Shadow Caregiving System/Economy?’ to your client? As explained in my book, clients may not self-identify with it or maybe they don’t think you’re interested in knowing what it’s doing to their life. First question, “Who will help in an emergency, let alone in an extended care need situation?” Is the response realistic/practical? Second question, can they define the potential effect of caregiving on the caregiver’s life? Filling in the Care Squad step describe in either book: “How Not to Pull Your Family Apart” or in “How Not To Pull Your Life Apart Caregiving: Overcome Challenges and Objections to Planning Conversations” will unearth the practicality of who is available to help and how it works with personal obligations. This step leads to discussing financial consequences to a disruption of career, saving, budget, lifestyle, and burnout! This simple step, the Care Squad, helps clients and professionals define what they don’t know about a realistic plan. My three-step roadmap helps clients and professionals develop a method that assists in discovering the positive effect of care planning vs. crisis planning.