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5 (Hard) Questions You Need to Ask Your Elderly Parents Soon (if not now)

October 4, 2019

aging parents and finances

Here’s what you need to know about your elderly parents and finances. Since we all have aging parents, there’s lots we need to know in order to help them “grow old gracefully.” Today I’m going to concentrate on one area of this topic: elderly parents and finances.  Watching your mother and father age can be […]

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Filed Under: Aging Parents, Family Tagged: aging parents, elderly parents, elderly parents and finances, how to help aging parents with finances

Mental Illness: When It’s a Family Affair (15 Observations and/or Best Practices)

July 12, 2019

For years, I had no idea what was wrong with my mother. That she’d been diagnosed with a mental illness: manic-depression (Known today as Bipolar Disorder.). Ashamed of her condition, Mom told no one. My father stayed silent on the topic as well, not clueing my brothers and me in on her condition. No doubt […]

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Filed Under: Aging Parents, Emotional Health Tagged: how to help a loved one with mental health problems, Mental illness, when a family member is mentally ill

A Father and Child Reunion (An essay on a father. And forgiveness.)

June 14, 2019

By Jennifer Norstrom Silbert Exactly one year ago tonight, my brothers, their wives, and I were standing vigil over my dad’s hospice bed at my parents’ home in Wisconsin.   We expected, but didn’t know for sure, that Dad wouldn’t make it through the night. His cancer had roared back into his life just three weeks […]

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Filed Under: Aging Parents, Faith, Family Tagged: aging parents, death, death of a father, father and daughter relationships, forgiveness, hospice, losing your father

Freshly Dug Graves (A list essay on what to expect when you lose your mother.)

January 11, 2019

Freshly Dug Graves: image of a freshly dug grave. Photo Credit: Lauren Housman.

-Less than 24 hours home from vacation, I reach for my phone. To call my mother to say I’m back, that I’ll visit soon. Then I remember, she’s no longer here. -Flying back east from our Arizona Fiesta Bowl adventure, I check my phone calendar. “Order flowers for Mom’s January 15th birthday.” Throat tight, I delete […]

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Filed Under: Aging Parents, Family Tagged: death, death of a mother, grief, what to expect when you lose your mother, what to expect when your mother dies

How to Settle an Estate (5 steps I learned when my father suddenly passed away.)

November 2, 2018

How to settle an estate: image of a Last Will and Testamen

by Cole Bozic I didn’t know that on February 1, 2017 my career trajectory would change and shove me into the world of wills and trusts and estates. And maybe I didn’t really understand how the events of that day would effect my decisions until much, much later. You see,  On February 1, 2017, my […]

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