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POLST (Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment) is an approach to improving end-of-life care in the United States, encouraging doctors to speak with patients and create specific medical orders to be honored by health care workers during a medical crisis.

Talk about the financial and long-term caregiving needs and eventual death of your parents!

You think you‟ve done everything right: Your parents or other relatives have signed a durable power of attorney…

“This … is the end … of my life.” These would be my patient’s only words — an economy of phrasing made necessary by an all-consuming air hunger.

Though there may be times when family members become useful support systems, there can be other situations in which they are circling vultures.

In our practice, we use a document called “Funeral Wishes” to help clients state what they want upon their death.

Millions of adult children today serve as financial helpers to their elderly or ill parents or other loved ones.

When financial planner Darcie Guerin’s 20-something daughter informed her she was getting married, Guerin says she replied, “Well, if you want me to come to the wedding, you and your fiancée have to first have your HIPAA and Power of Attorney forms signed for me.”

There is nothing more devastating than the loss of a spouse. No matter how well a couple prepares for this eventuality, losing one’s husband or wife is a terrible shock and often requires years of adjustment.

Dementia is not only robbing the elderly of their mental capacity, it’s putting financial advisers in a bind.