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Are Your Holidays Missing Their Happy?
Is Your Holiday Missing Its Happy? 2020 has been a turbulent year both personally and professionally for many people. Losses of loved ones, jobs, and homes may have occurred. Changes to our usual daily and holiday routines have left us distressed, angry, depressed, or...
Caregiving Stress: When the Children Don’t Notice
Holiday season is often a time when out-of-town children visit their parents for the first time in a while and notice that one of their parents has declined since they last saw them, and caregiving stress is improving. COVID-19 has made traveling more difficult for...
Mental Health and Legal Planning
While the festive decorations go up, carols play, and warm greetings arrive from friends in the mail, there are usually reminders that the holiday season is not a happy time for everyone. For some people, holidays are a reminder of loved ones lost or a trigger...
Family Caregivers Deserve Our Gratitude
2020 has provided all of us with a greater appreciation for the presence of loved ones in our lives, familiar routines, and financial stability. These aspects of daily life may regularly require adjustment for individuals serving as family caregivers. A...
Planning for Loved Ones With Special Needs
Parents and grandparents devote a considerable amount of their time and life savings to making sure that their children and grandchildren live the best possible life. Often the care provided by a parent or grandparent continues well after a child becomes an...
Dementia and its Shadow of Grief
Last week’s column discussed the concept of loss and our response of grief to the absence of someone or something important to us ( https://keystoneelderlaw.com/end-of-life/grief-and-the-path-forward/ ). There are some situations in life which cause grief which is...
Grief and the Path Forward
2020 has been a year in which a pervasive sense of loss has permeated society. Events such as the pandemic have resulted in acute losses such as the deaths of loved ones and disappearance of jobs while wildfires and hurricanes have destroyed homes and property. ...
The Family Home: Part 3 of 3
Selling a Parent’s Empty Home This is the conclusion of a three-part series which addresses various considerations related to the family home and planning for, or reacting to, a long-term care crisis. The first week’s article can be found here:...
The Family Home: Part 2 of 3
Options for Family Home Transfer This is the second of a three-part series which addresses various issues related to the family home, and planning for, or reacting to, a long-term care crisis. Last week’s article, which can be...
The Family Home: Part I of 3
Circumstances of Family Home Transfer This is the first of a three-part series to review options of how to transfer the family home from one generation to the next. This week’s article reviews a variety of circumstances that affect how options may be...
