11.26.2023 - By Bill Yount & Jackie Cummings Koski
Cameron Huddleston is the author of "Mom and Dad, We Need to Talk: How to Have Essential Conversations With Your Parents About Their Finances." She is an award-winning journalist with 20 years of experience writing about personal finance. Her work has appeared in Forbes, Kiplinger’s Personal Finance, Chicago Tribune, MSN, Yahoo and many more print and online publications. Cameron is a mom of three young kids and is also a daughter; she juggled raising her kids while caring for her mom, who had Alzheimer’s disease. It was a stressful situation, but it gave her great insight into how financially devastating Alzheimer’s and dementia can be. It also made her realize how necessary it is for adult children to be having conversations with their parents about their finances before a health issue or emergency leaves their parents unable to manage their own finances.