The trauma of a major medical crisis is compounded by a lack of advanced legal and financial planning. We can wag our heads all day about someone's failure to properly plan, but we must realistically deal with the hand that is dealt to the family of someone who has failed to plan. The key decision-making [...]
A stroke or other sudden medical events may leave a person with severely diminished capacity, including the inability to work, but they may have enough capacity to make their medical, financial, and legal decisions. The reality may be that although they have the minimal capacity to make those decisions that they need assistance. To be [...]
When someone has a severe medical crisis, their loved ones get a crash course in the convergence of financial, medical and legal issues. In this six-part series, our weekly newsletter will focus on the step-by-step process to deal with these emergency issues. First is the immediate assessment and prognosis. If the health event is serious [...]