A Legal MinuteCaring for aging parents
How Early Guidance Helps in Senior Care Decisions
The short answer
The speaker says attorneys or firms often refer families to him already in crisis; he hopes education like this reaches people before a crisis. After meeting a referred family, he updates the attorney and gets the family's permission to keep collaborating and sharing information. Some attorneys outside Carly's firm also do Medicaid or financial planning.
From the full episode When Aging Parents Need More Support: Resources Families Should Know About (21:03).
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Transcript
And oftentimes folks call me on a referral from the attorney or from the firm, and they're in the office in some sort of crisis, and of course the call comes our way. More and more, together anymore, though, we're trying to reach and do these kinds of education opportunities and reach people, probably, hopefully, before the crisis.
But once I get started, if I've gotten a referral from the attorney, once I meet with a family, I'll call and give them an update on what we've done and get permission from the family that I continue to collaborate and exchange information.
And some attorneys, not with Carly's firm, but other attorneys, often do Medicaid planning or they do some financial planning as well.
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