Once a dashing young couple that dressed to the nines and had a new car every year or six months, Louie and Lee are now old — 87 and 88. They have a house with a mortgage, two small pensions, Medicare and no real plan for their final years.
The years that once stretched out ahead of them have closed in tighter and tighter, slowly grinding them into a crisis they never saw coming.
Families all over have similar tales.
They’ve worked all their lives and never thought to ask for a handout. But they don’t have enough set aside to carry them through as their health care needs steadily and dramatically increase.
They have no plan for how to handle their assets as their mental functions dim.
Although they have family — in particular, a grandson who’s put his life on hold to help out — family members have their own lives and don’t have the expertise to handle serious medical issues.
Any one of those problems is tough.
Put them all together and add denial, guilt and emotional baggage, and caring for aging parents can be a thorny thicket.
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THE CRUELEST AGE: A local family confronts Alzheimer's, nursing home care
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Louie and Lee Tessandori
The years that once stretched out ahead of them have closed in tighter and tighter, slowly grinding them into a crisis they never saw coming.
Families all over have similar tales.
They’ve worked all their lives and never thought to ask for a handout. But they don’t have enough set aside to carry them through as their health care needs steadily and dramatically increase.
They have no plan for how to handle their assets as their mental functions dim.
Although they have family — in particular, a grandson who’s put his life on hold to help out — family members have their own lives and don’t have the expertise to handle serious medical issues.
Any one of those problems is tough.
Put them all together and add denial, guilt and emotional baggage, and caring for aging parents can be a thorny thicket.
Full Article and Source:
THE CRUELEST AGE: A local family confronts Alzheimer's, nursing home care
Video:
Louie and Lee Tessandori
2 comments:
It is very important to plan ahead, moreso in these trying times of corrupt guardianship proceedings growing at an exponential rate! And to fight for reform in order to enforce those advance directives in the courts, when necessary.
How sad and what a grim reminder for all of us.
The Tessandori's situation is one in millions of households. They were in denial and life caught up with them while they were busy growing old.
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