Life/Death/Law

In this episode, I’m taking a look at a difficult moment — you visit your parents and realize that your parents just seem…. a little bit different, just not the same as they used to be–more forgetful, more agitated, or suddenly involved with people that you don’t know or trust.

Join me for a candid discussion with Dr. Elizabeth Landsverk, a board-certified physician in Internal medicine, Geriatric medicine, and Palliative care medicine. She’s also the founder of ElderConsult Geriatric Medicine, a practice that offers house-call based medicine to seniors and their families.

Elizabeth offers practical help for those dealing with dementia: how to know if it’s time to take a loved one to be evaluated; what kind of cognitive and behavioral symptoms to worry about (or not to worry about); how to find the right doctor; avoid the wrong medications and offer a loved one with dementia the best possible quality of life. Join us!

In this first episode Emily Bouchard, a family dynamics and money coach and the managing partner at Wealth Legacy Group, talks to me about money and the difficulties that families often have in engaging in honest conversations about it. Emily offers  fascinating insights into why money can be such a hard thing to talk about, and tips for helping to get these conversations started. I asked her to be on my show because, so often, a long, uncomfortable silence falls across the room when my clients begin to sort out who owns what in a marriage, or how parents want their children to treat an inheritance.  As Emily points out, avoiding open and honest communications about money (like avoiding the same kinds of conversations about death and illness) means a missed opportunity for learning about ourselves, our families, and our most closely held values and hopes. I hope you enjoy it.

To read more: Emily is the co-author, with Emily Chase Smith, of Beginner’s Guide to Purposeful Prenups and the author of Estate Planning for the Blended Family.

At it's core, estate planning is really about generosity--what you are actually doing is giving away everything you own to the people and organizations that you love the most. If you’ve ever been curious about the practice of generosity or the value of it, or found yourself wanting to be generous but somehow holding yourself back, listen to my conversation with Myoshin Kelley, a buddhist meditation teacher and a Senior Instructor with the Tergar Community in Minneapolis. https://tergar.org/

https://www.lifedeathlaw.com/2018/02/life-death-law-episode-3-practice-generosity.html

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In this episode of Life/Death/Law, I'm talking with Dr. Elizabeth Landsverk, a board-certified physician in Internal medicine, Geriatric medicine and Palliative care medicine. She is also the founder of ElderConsult Geriatric Medicine, a house calls practice in the San Francisco bay area that addresses the challenging medical and behavioral issues often facing older patients and their families. Find out more at www.elderconsult.com.

Elizabeth offers practical help for those dealing with dementia: how to know if it's time to take a loved one to be evaluated; what kind of cognitive and behavioral symptoms to worry about (or not to worry about); how to find the right doctor; avoid the wrong medications and offer a loved one with dementia the best possible quality of life. Join us!

Please join the podcast discussion on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LizaHanksAuthor/

In this episode of Life/Death/Law, Emily Bouchard, managing partner at Wealth Legacy Group, and a family dynamics and money coach, offers helpful tips and suggestions for couples who find talking about money difficult (and, really, who doesn't?).

https://www.lifedeathlaw.com/2017/11/life-death-law-podcast-episode-1-purposeful-prenups.html

Please join the podcast discussion on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LizaHanksAuthor/

Welcome to Life/Death/Law. A podcast about estate planning, an issue that affects all of us, because we’re human. Lawyers tend to make estate planning both boring and hard, but I think it doesn't need to be either one. After 20 years writing about it and writing estate plans for hundreds of families, I actually think it's a fascinating and rich topic. Death is like sex. We all do it, but we're often afraid to talk about it. I’m Liza Hanks and I am here to answer your questions with no judgement. Are you ready? Let's get started.