By Helga Hayse
Doctors have, over the years, quietly advised patients about care options at a time of a medical emergency or terminal illness. On Jan. 1, the government announced that doctors would be reimbursed by Medicare for end-of-life counseling during a regular office visit. Four days later, the government changed its position. With lightning speed, a medical decision has once again become a political one.
This is terrible news for patients and their families who need to open the discussions about end-of-life care.
Posted on ParentGiving.com
In the following book excerpt and companion article, Helga Hayse explains the new generation gap and why conversations between parents and their adult children are crucial, whether you’re in a caregiving situation or still in the traditional parent-child relationship dynamic.
Read the original article HERE.
What if today was your last chance to speak to the people you love, your last opportunity to share what’s in your heart and your mind?
The cell phone buzzed in Colin’s pocket. A text from Jan, his sister. “Dad’s in the hospital. Heart attack. Operation tomorrow.” The son excused himself from the weekly staff meeting, asked his assistant to book a flight to Manhattan and hailed a cab for LAX. He called his wife to let her know where he was going and called his mother to tell her he was on his way.
By Joan Aragone
San Mateo County Times
Several years ago, a few days before she was to leave for an extended stay overseas, a friend paid one of her frequent visits to her father, who lived nearby.
He wanted her to look over "his papers," by which she knew he meant his will.
"I was horrified," she told me at the time.
Posted on the blog BabyBoomers U.S.
Money Love & Legacy: Conversations That Matter Between Generations, written by Helga Hayse, is a guide for thinking and talking about money, inheritance, entitlement, responsibility, forgiveness, love and legacy.
It makes the case for why parents and adult children need to have these crucial conversations before it’s too late.
Families confuse money with love. Parents procrastinate about planning. Siblings fight about inheritance. The author bares her own soul about having, and not having, crucial conversations with her family. Her research documents the experiences of people who share their thoughts, fears and concerns about unfinished business within their own families.
