With considerable help from my wife, Patrice, I admitted my mother to a home specializing in memory care nearly nine years ago. We worked to understand, then wind up Mom’s everyday affairs; prepare a plan…

Losing someone is one of life’s most difficult experiences. In the days immediately following a death, emotions often feel overwhelming, yet there are still important responsibilities that need your attention. Between making arrangements, notifying family…

I open the FaceTime app, make sure my house and my kid are presentable (if you are Latino, you know), and press call. My father lives in Colombia, in a small town near Medellín, about…

I grew up hearing my grandmother say that she was afraid of dying. As she would put it, “If death were rest, I would rather live tired.” My grandmother was always a spirited person, with…

We’ve pulled together some of our top resources and communications content to create this Spanish language toolkit(Part 2) to help you reach your Spanish-speaking audiences. Instructions for this and our other English language toolkits can be…

 5 Money Lessons From People Caring for Their Elderly Parents  This New York Times article explores the challenges of planning for aging parents, with Dr. Atul Gawande, author of Being Mortal, pointing readers to The Conversation Project’s…