As a guardian or advocate, there are times when we work toward setting up out of state travel for our clients. Along with the legal legwork that may have to be done, such as obtaining the proper orders allowing travel, we have discovered some great tips for helping guardianship clients navigate through the airport. These…
Continue Reading
Small talk, by its very definition, alludes to conversation that is trivial and meaningless; but small talk can reveal volumes of information if you really listen to what is being said. In our professional lives, it is easy to get swept away with productivity. Everything we do must be accounted for and must be productive…
Continue Reading
Have you known of an ill client who is discharged from the hospital with four separate orders from four different doctors for the same lab test? When it’s time to draw the blood work with no nurse on staff, the facility staff doesn’t figure out the overlap and the client ends up getting poked with…
Continue Reading
Have you purchased a high-coverage Long Term Care (LTC) insurance policy? If not, why not? Lately, when my college-age son hears either of his parents rant and rave about what is happening in the health care and benefits world, he has become fond of saying: “The only solution to health care issues is to be…
Continue Reading
Being a professional guardian is both a privilege and an honor, but the job also comes with some heavy responsibilities – including making difficult final decisions with options that are less than optimal. When I became the guardian of a 96-year-old woman and her 62-year-old developmentally-disabled son, I knew that any end of life decisions…
Continue Reading