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UPDATED: AUGUST 2025

Positive and practical videos based on my personal + professional experience. My guest experts and I make recommendations specifically for long-distance caregiving caregivers. Learn how to best care for your parents financially, legally, nutritionally, etc.

“I’m so glad to have found your [YouTube] channel! My father has Dementia. He’s 91, mom is 87 and his primary caregiver. I live 45 minutes away and I’m trying my best to help them. My mother has no patience with my father and I’m trying to help her learn new ways to communicate better with my dad ❤️" - Kathy P.

FOR YOUR PARENTS

How to Handle Debt After Retiring
Worried about your parents’ finances right now? Especially with the added expense of dementia? Here are some tips for your parents to decrease debt after retirement. You can also forward this link to them!

WEBSITES I RECOMMEND

Genworth - Cost of Long-Term Care (USA): Search by Zip Code

It’s incredibly hard to estimate financial costs for the future. Especially when you don’t know the price of long-term health care for your exact location. But now you do!

This excellent website gives you a median estimate for in-home care, community and assisted living, and nursing homes, all based on the city, state or zip code you enter! You can even compare TWO locations, so you can check if care for Your Parents is more expensive where they live, or where you live. How cool is that?!

Eldercare Locator (USA) : Search by Zipcode

Find help in your local area (information + assistance, disability resources, health insurance counseling, legal services, etc)

Home Care Association of America: Choosing a Home Care Provider (USA): Search by Zipcode

Read the “Key Considerations” text first, then click “Find an HCAOA Provider Near You.” You’ll enter Your Parents’ zip code and you’ll see all the home care agencies nearby.

HCAOA is the only association that exists specifically for home care businesses and requires their members meet rigorous standards. These standards include: 24/7 care, background checks for all employees, etc.

(Just a note: home care, also known as companion care, is not the same service as home health)