Category Archives: Long-term-care Insurance

If you were too injured or ill to make your own decisions, who would do it? A stranger or a greedy relative picked by the state? Don’t wait; make your choices known.
Writing about incapacity is one thing. Experiencing it, even secondhand, is quite another.

My father suffered a devastating stroke while visiting his sister in Florida. During the final four months of his life, this once bright, capable man couldn’t decide anything more complicated than what color shirt to wear on a given day. Every other decision regarding his life — what he ate, how his bills were paid and how hard his caregivers should fight to keep him alive — had to be made by others.
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