Long-Term Care Needs Sneak Up On Us

Being well-acquainted with the challenges of long term care for parents (my father spent 7 years in assisted living and a nursing home before dying at age 91 & my mother is currently in rehab after a stroke and trying to get fit enough to return to assisted living), this blog post and video caught my eye.  I'm also reading Jane Gross' book Bittersweet Season: Caring for our aging parents and ourselves, which I highly recommend. (see related Squared Away blog post).  "It’s so much easier to shove aside worries about long-term care for the elderly – our own or our parents’ – than it is to contemplate the financial and deeply emotional issues required to care for an aging parent. The video... tells a true story about what happens when the requirements of care slam us hard, as they often do." http://squaredawayblog.bc.edu/squared-away/long-term-care-needs-sneak-up-on-us/  Time to start planning....