A Legal MinuteCaring for aging parents
Why Families Need a Hub for Senior Care
The short answer
Carly Whiteside says families often expect her firm to solve everything at once, including things it doesn't do; needs can extend to placement, or a fiduciary when no relative can act. As a self-described hub, she refers families to professionals like placement specialists and licensed fiduciaries she says share the firm's aim of helping people.
From the full episode When Aging Parents Need More Support: Resources Families Should Know About (21:03).
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Transcript
When people come in, they are expecting me to kind of solve everything at once, even if it's not things that I do. And so it's great to have people like Scott, licensed fiduciaries that we can tag in, you know, if family's not here, there's no one to act.
And so I have found when they come to me, they're expecting me to be able to point them in the directions of kind of everything that offshoots from this. It's not just preparing the legal documents and getting people appointed. It's, okay, well, now I need placement — who do I call for that? Okay, none of us can do it, we need a fiduciary — who do you know? And so my role is kind of — I feel like I'm the hub, and then all of the things that kind of come after this, I'm referring out and bringing people in that, you know, share the same vision as my firm.
They're out to help people, because as Scott mentioned, it is a crazy unregulated wilderness. And I know in my just networking and being out there in the community, I have met placement people where I wouldn't let them place a dog.
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