How Not To Tear Your Family Apart

Parenting & Relationships

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Synopsis

“In a new world of caring for an aging parent, the leading expert in long-term care provides a three-step framework for having difficult discussions and preparing the options ahead of time that will work best for your parent(s) and family. You owe it to yourself and loved ones to read this book!” -Betty Meredith, CFA®, CFP®, CRC®

Experience is an excellent teacher—but it can be a harsh master. We are living longer, and aging takes its toll on our ability to remain totally independent. No matter how you define "family," you will find yourself in the role of caregiver, caring for a caregiver, or being cared for by a caregiver. Life doesn't stop while you're caught up in caring and juggling your own life. With no real training for this multi-faceted, multi-generational role, you must find a path that doesn't destroy relationships or create financial havoc.

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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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Three Simple Steps

How Not To Tear Your Family Apart offers Three Simple Steps to position the advisor, wealth manager, agent, attorney, or specialist as the interpreter of options to prepare for extended or long-term care needs. The Steps invite multiple family generations to work with a professional to fully explore the options offered during the fictional family’s quest to understand how different options prepare different generations to plan for extended care needs. It is the fiduciary responsibility of professionals to help clients understand how to protect their future from the unwanted consequences of not planning for care needs. As the Pandemic illustrated, being unprepared for unexpected care needs, as well as those that come with aging and longevity, can create stress that tears lives and careers apart. This story book offers three steps to guide these difficult but necessary conversations.

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How Not To Tear Your Family Apart

tep One’s Care Guide helps organize essential health and legal documentation information.
Step Two’s Care Squad organizes individuals into an action ready unit.
Step Three’s Care Planning Team investigates options for taking care of extended or long-term care needs, including a basic understanding of eligibility and financial feasibility.

Each generation can employ the three simple steps according to their own individuality, timeline, needs, and view of the world. When seeking advice, most families will interact with several categories of advisors who all serve different roles. Depending on your particular situation, you may call on a financial advisor, insurance agent, business tax consultant, CPA, investment advisor, age-in-place expert, eldercare attorney, legal counsel, Medicare/Medicaid specialist, reverse mortgage specialist, and so on.

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Carroll S Golden

How Not To Tear Your Family Apart

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Author Biography

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Three Simple Steps

Book Excerpt

How Not To Tear Your Family Apart

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