Critical Conversations
Deciding how to pay for long-term care expenses requires more than knowing what it will cost. It’s also important to understand your goals, and what is important to you.
Often long-term care plans involve more than one generation in a family. Plans may need to be agreed upon by more than one person, for example between spouses or even siblings. How do we start the conversations that need to occur to plan for future long-term care needs? Dr. Marlene Stum in the video, “Can we talk? Critical conversations about financing long term care” provides specific examples and strategies for talking to others about financing long-term care.
Part 1, “Breaking the Silence” introduces this sometimes difficult topic.